• Family : COMMELINACEAE
  (Spiderwort Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : KANA FAMILY (काना फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : COMMELINACEAE
• Basionym : Commelina scaberrima Blume
• Synonym(s) : Dictyospermum scaberrimum (Blume) J.K. Morton
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Rhopalephora scaberrima (Blume) Faden
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Semi-Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : By road sides in forests
• Flower, Fruit : July-December
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Srikakulam district, West Godavari district, Vishakapatnam district, East Godavari district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Odisha : Nayagarh district
• World Distribution : India, South China, Taiwan, Tibet, Eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Indo-China, Malesia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; Pullaiah, 1997. Fl. Andhra Pradesh, vol. 3. pp.1012; 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 scaberrimum. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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