• Family : COMMELINACEAE
  (Spiderwort Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : KANA FAMILY (काना फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : COMMELINACEAE
• Basionym : Commelina edulis Stokes
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Murdannia edulis (Stokes) Faden
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Grasslands
• Comments / notes : Occasional
• Flower, Fruit : April-June
• Distribution :
  • Telangana : Mehboobnagar district
  • Kerala : Ernakulam district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district
  • Maharashtra : Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Chandrapur district
  • Odisha : Mayurbhanj district, Kalhandi district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Cambodia, Indo-China, New Guinea
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons.; Pullaiah, T., 1997. Flora of Andhra Pradesh. Vol. 3; 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=Murdannia edulis. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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