• 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 nicotianifolia Roth ex Schult.
• Common name : Wild tobacco
• Vernacular name : Kattupugayilai (Tamil); Kattupukayila (Malayalam)
• Habit : Undershrub
• Habitat : Grasslands, shola and Evergreen forests
• Flower, Fruit : October-March
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Davanagare district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district, Udupi district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Dindigul district, The Nilgiri district
• World Distribution : Indo-Malesia, SE. Asia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; ; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan District; Gowda, 2004 – Flora of Sringeri; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Flora of Mysore District; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg District; Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere District; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
• 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 nicotianifolia. Downloaded on 3 April 2025.

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