• Family : COMMELINACEAE
  (Spiderwort Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : KANA FAMILY (काना फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : COMMELINACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Dictyospermum montanum Wight
• Vernacular name : Thannikkanchi (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Evergreen and semi-Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Common in Western Ghats.
• Flower, Fruit : July-November
• Collector(s) Name : T.P.Ramamoorthy
• Collection Nos : HFP 2032, CJS 14433
• Collection Locality : Kenchankumri State forest (Hassan)
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; 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=Aneilema montanum. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

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