• 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) : Commelina clavata C.B.Clarke
• Common name : Willow-leaved Day-flower
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Wet areas in moist deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Often on perennially moist places.
• Flower, Fruit : July-December
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Anantapur district, Kurnool district, Kadapa district, Chittoor district, Guntur district
  • Kerala : Malappuram district, Idukki district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Raigad district
  • Tamil Nadu : Salem district
• World Distribution : India incl. Andama, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Malay peninsula, Java and Sumatra
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. ; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Pullaiah, 1997. Fl. Andhra Pradesh, vol. 3; 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=Commelina clavata. Downloaded on 3 April 2025.

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