- 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 longifolia Lam.
- Vernacular name : Jal pipari (Hindi)
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Grasslands and deciduous forests near rocks
- Comments / notes : On plains to 1500m.
- Flower, Fruit : July-March
- Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy, Arun Singh & K. Sankara Rao
- Collection Date : 26/11/2015
- Collection Nos : HJCB-E-257
- Collection Locality : Palamaneru forests, Chittoor district (AP)
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : East Godavari district, Guntur district, Krishna district, Vishakapatnam district, Vizianagaram district
- Telangana : Mehboobnagar district, Warangal district
- Kerala : Palakkad district, Kottayam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Maharashtra : Mumbai Suburban district, Mumbai-City district, Thane district, Palghar district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Sindhudurg district, Pune district
- Odisha : Ganjam district, Gajapati district, Mayurbhanj district
- World Distribution : India, China, Indo-China, Malesia
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; 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. pp. 1003; 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 longifolia. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.
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