• Family : COMMELINACEAE
  (Spiderwort Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : KANA FAMILY (काना फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : COMMELINACEAE
• Basionym : Aneilema dimorphum Dalzell
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Murdannia dimorpha (Dalzell) G.Brückn.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Grasslands and sandy sea shore
• Flower, Fruit : July-November
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : East Godavari district, Vizianagaram district
  • Karnataka : Mysuru district, Hassan district, Udupi district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Kozhikode district, Wayanad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Bhandara district, Pune district, Raigad district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah, T., 1997. Flora of Andhra Pradesh. Vol. 3; 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; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara.
• 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=Murdannia dimorpha. Downloaded on 3 April 2025.

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