• 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 ovalifolium Wight
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Occasional in damp places in the forests
• Flower, Fruit : August-December
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Odisha : Keonjhar district, Mayurbhanj district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Laccadive Islands
• Conservation Status : Endangered (EN)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; 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 ovalifolium. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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