• Family : BURMANNIACEAE
  (Burmannia Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : BURMANNIA FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : BURMANNIACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Burmannia coelestis D.Don
• Habit : Herb
• Comments / notes : Rare. Often on hill slopes on moist rocks, lateritic plateau
• Flower, Fruit : August-February
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Gondia district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district, Mayurbhanj district, Sambalpur district
  • Tamil Nadu : Salem district
• World Distribution : India, Nepal, Malaysia, China, New Guinea, Philippines
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; C. E. C. Fischer, 1921 - A Survey of the Flora of Anaimalai Hills in the Coimbatore District, Madras Presidency; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state – Monocotyledons; 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=Burmannia coelestis. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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