• 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) : Murdannia lanuginosa (Wall. ex C.B.Clarke) G.Brĵckn.
• Habit : Herb
• Comments / notes : Rare
• Flower, Fruit : May-December
• Collection Nos : HFP 2135, CJS 14766
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Belagavi district, Chikkamagaluru district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Uttara Kannada district, Udupi district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district
  • Maharashtra : Kolhapur district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• Conservation Status : Vulnerable (VU)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; 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=Murdannia lanuginosa. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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