- 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) : Belosynapsis vivipara (Dalzell) C.E.C.Fisch.
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Evergreen forests
- Comments / notes : Vulnerable due to habitat loss and tree felling
- Flower, Fruit : August-December
- Collector(s) Name : F.M.Jarrett & T.P.Ramamoorthy; R.B.Faden, A.J.Faden & C.J.Saldanha
- Collection Nos : HFP 1057, CJS 15324, FMNH 76/214 (A), CS 19209
- Collection Locality : Devalkere (Hassan); Kempuhole river, Shiradi Ghat (Hassan)
- Distribution :
- Kerala : Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Maharashtra : Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Palghar district, Thane district, Raigad district, PNG, Sindhudurg district
- Native : India
- Endemism : Southwest India
- Conservation Status : Vulnerable (VU)
- Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state – Monocotyledons; 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=Belosynapsis vivipara. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.
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