• Family : CAMPANULACEAE
  (Bellflower Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : DHAWAL FAMILY (धवल फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : CAMPANULACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Lobelia alsinoides Lam.
• Vernacular name : Painmali (Oria); Kakkapoo (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Wet areas in grasslands and also in the plains
• Comments / notes : On plains to 1600m across perenially moist, exposed places, generally in clayey soil.
• Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy
• Collection Date : 23/01/2014
• Collection Nos : FAP 42023; CJS 15617, CS 7404
• Collection Locality : Batrepalli, Nigidi forest, Anantapur district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Throughout Andhra Pradesh
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Belagavi district, Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Raichur district, Shivamogga district, Tumakuru district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Odisha : Ganjam district, Mayurbhanj district, Angul district, Cuttack district
  • Tamil Nadu : All districts of Tamil Nadu
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Tropical Himalayas, Myanmar, East & West China, Malaysia
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; J.L.Ellis, 1990- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 2; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan District; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 – Flora of Bangalore District; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg District; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi District; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1987). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 2.
• 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=Lobelia alsinoides. Downloaded on 3 April 2025.

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