• Family : ACANTHACEAE
  (Acanthus Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ARUSA FAMILY (अडूसा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ACANTHACEAE
• Basionym : Strobilanthes sessilis var. sessiloides (Wight) Clarke
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Pleocaulus sessilis (Nees) Bremek.
• Habit : Undershrub
• Habitat : Grasslands
• Flower, Fruit : November-December
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Belagavi district, Chikkamagaluru district, Hassan district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
• Endemism : Southern Western Ghats
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; 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=Pleocaulus sessilioides. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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