• 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 spirata (L.) G.Brückn.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Grasslands and moist places
• Comments / notes : Often on hills above 1000m, in moist soil, as clumps in fallow fields and river beds.
• Flower, Fruit : August-February
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Throughout Andhra Pradesh
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Amravati district, Bhandara district, Mumbai Suburban district, Chandrapur district, Kolhapur district, Nagpur district, Nashik district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
  • Odisha : Throughout Odisha
  • Tamil Nadu : Throughout Tamil Nadu
• Native : India, China
• World Distribution : India, Africa, Myanmar, South China, Malesia
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• 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; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. ; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Pullaiah, 1997. Fl. Andhra Pradesh, vol. 3. pp. 1011; 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 spirata. Downloaded on 3 April 2025.

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