• 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 versicolor (Dalzell) G.Brückn.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Semi-Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Occasional on rocks under flowing water.
• Flower, Fruit : August-November
• Collection Nos : KFP 3709
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district, Udupi district, Tumakuru district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Palakkad district
  • Maharashtra : Mumbai Suburban district, Mumbai-City district, Kolhapur district, Pune district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; N.P.Singh, 1988- Flora of Eastern Karnataka; 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 versicolor. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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