Cyanotis papilionacea (Burm.f.) Schult. & Schult.f.

 
  • 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) : Cyanotis papilionacea (Burm.f.) Schult. & Schult.f.
  • Habit : Herb
  • Habitat : Grasslands
  • Flower, Fruit : July-September
  • Collection Nos : KFP 12043
  • Distribution :
    • Karnataka : Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district
    • Kerala : Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district
    • Maharashtra : Mumbai Suburban district, Mumbai-City district, Thane district, Palghar district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Sindhudurg district
  • Native : India
  • Endemism : Peninsular India
  • Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
  • Literature : Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons; 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=Cyanotis papilionacea. Downloaded on 3 April 2025.

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