• 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 ensifolia R.Br.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Grasslands and sacred groves, also in scrub jungles
• Comments / notes : Occasional on hills above 350m, on slopes, especially in perennilly moist places.
• Flower, Fruit : July-January
• Collector(s) Name : Arun Singh, Raja K. Swamy & K. Sankara Rao
• Collection Date : 19/11/2014
• Collection Nos : HJCB-0184
• Collection Locality : Palamaneru forests, Chittoor district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : All districts of Andhra Pradesh
  • Karnataka : Ballari district
  • Kerala : Idukki district, Alappuzha district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Dindigul district, Dharmapuri district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Karur district, Krishnagiri district, Madurai district, Namakkal district, Pudukkottai district, Sivaganga district, Salem district, Tiruchirapalli district, Tiruvannamalai district, Villipuram district, Vellore district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Australia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; 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 ensifolia. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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