- Family : CARYOPHYLLACEAE
(Pink Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : BUGYALE FAMILY
- Family (as per The APG System III) : CARYOPHYLLACEAE
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
- Vernacular name : Pasanavedi (Oria)
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : In rock crevices in dry deciduous forests
- Key identification features : Suffruticose herb with white hairs
- Flower, Fruit : September-February
- Collector(s) Name : S.R. Ramesh & S.B. Manohar; K.Sankara Rao, Raja K.Swamy & Arun Singh R
- Collection Date : 19-01-1979; 28-11-2014
- Collection Nos : KFP 5890; HJCB-0247
- Collection Locality : Kudligi-Hospet road, Bellari district (KA); Tirumal Hills, Chittoor district
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Anatapur district (Anantapur district), Kurnool district (Kurnool district), Venkatagiri Hills (Nellore district), Guvvalacheruvu, Palakonda (Kadapa district), Kambakkam Hills, Tirumala Hills, Sadasivakona (Chittoor district)
- Karnataka : Ballari district
- Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Kottayam district
- Maharashtra : Konkan
- Odisha : Bolangir district, Bargarh district, Sambalpur district
- Tamil Nadu : Vellore district, Tiruvannamalai district, Alagar Hills (Madurai district), Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Coimbatore district, Tirunelveli district
- Endemism : Central and Peninsular India
- World Distribution : India
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; 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=Polycarpaea aurea. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.
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