- Family : BRASSICACEAE
(Mustard Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : SARSON FAMILY (सरसों फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : BRASSICACEAE
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Lepidium didymum L.
- Common name : Swine cress
- Habit : Herb
- Comments / notes : Rare in forests and weed in agricultural fields
- Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Tirumala Hills (Chittoor district)
- Karnataka : Kolar district
- Kerala : Idukki district, Kottayam district
- Maharashtra : Aurangabad district, Kolhapur district, Nagpur district, Pune district, Satara district
- Tamil Nadu : Shevaroy Hills (Salem district), Kolli Hills (Namakkal district), Dharmapuri district, Krishnagiri district, The Nilgiri district
- World Distribution : Cosmopolitan
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Franklin Benjamin & G.V.S.Murthy, 2013. Flora of Sri Venkateswara National Park, Andhra Pradesh, BSI.; Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; N.P. Sing & S. Karthikeyan 2000. Flora of Maharastra vol 1. Botanical survey of India, Govt. India; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Coronopus didymus. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.
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