• Family : COMMELINACEAE
  (Spiderwort Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : KANA FAMILY (काना फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : COMMELINACEAE
• Basionym : Commelina japonica Thunb; Murdannia elata (Vahl) G.Brückn.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Murdannia japonica (Thunb.) Faden
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Evergreen, semi-evergreen and moist deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Occasional in moist, shaded places
• Flower, Fruit : July-October
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : West Godavari district, Srikakulam district
  • Karnataka : Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Sindhudurg district
  • Odisha : Bargarh district, Bolangir district, Mayurbhanj district, Dhenkanal district, Sambalpur district, Keonjhar district
• World Distribution : Indo-Malesia, South China, Japan
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; 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; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka.
• 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 japonica. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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