• Family : COMMELINACEAE
  (Spiderwort Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : KANA FAMILY (काना फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : COMMELINACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Cyanotis wightii C.B.Clarke
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Cyanotis pilosa Schult. & Schult.f.
• Vernacular name : Kalani Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Along margins of Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Occasional on hills above 900m, often gregarious.
• Flower, Fruit : August-December
• Collection Locality : Rare on wet grounds
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Satara district
  • Tamil Nadu : Throughout Tamil Nadu
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; 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 pilosa. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

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