Commelina maculata Edgew.

 
  • 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 maculata Edgew.
  • Vernacular name : Chayonikudi (Malayalam)
  • Habit : Herb
  • Habitat : Evergreen forests
  • Comments / notes : Occasional in shaded places
  • Flower, Fruit : August-February
  • Distribution :
    • Andhra Pradesh : Throughout Andra Pradesh
    • Karnataka : Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district
    • Kerala : Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kollam district
    • Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Amravati district, Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Chandrapur district, Kolhapur district, Nagpur district, Nashik district, Pune district, Raigad district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
  • World Distribution : Indo-Malesia, South China
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Literature : Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons; 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 maculata. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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