• 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 simplex (Vahl) Brenan
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Moist deciduous forests and grasslands
• Comments / notes : Not common, grows as forest undergrowth.
• Flower, Fruit : August-October
• Collection Nos : HFP 1863, CJS 14670, KFP 2128
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Minumulur (Vishakapatnam district)
  • Karnataka : Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Kolhapur district, Nashik district, Pune district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district
• World Distribution : Paleotropics
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; 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 simplex. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

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