- Family : COMMELINACEAE
(Spiderwort Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : KANA FAMILY (काना फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : COMMELINACEAE
- Basionym : Commelina secundiflora Blume
- Synonym(s) : Aclisia secundiflora (Blume) Bakh.
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Pollia secundiflora (Blume) Bakh.f.
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Evergreen and semi-Evergreen forests
- Comments / notes : Frequent
- Key identification features : Perennial herb. Stem ascending. Leaves lanceolate or elliptic-oblong, closely spaced below the inflorescence, cuneate at base, acuminate at apex; sheaths tubular, viscid. Inflorescence terminal, thyrsoid panicles. Flowers 6-8 mm across; perianth glabrous, clawed, white. Capsules ellipsoid, shining blue. Seeds many, finely pitted
- Flower, Fruit : June-December
- Collector(s) Name : C.J.Saldanha; T.P.Ramamoorthy
- Collection Nos : CJS 14631, HFP 1788
- Collection Locality : Kempuhole, Shiradi Ghat (Hassan); Kagenari (Hassan)
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Dakshina Kannada district
- Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district
- World Distribution : India, Bhutan, Myanmar, China, Malacca, Sri Lanka, New Guinea
- 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, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; Ravikumar & Balachandran-2014, Journal of Threatened Taxa 6(8): 6108–6121; 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=Pollia secundiflora. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.
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