• Family : ACANTHACEAE
  (Acanthus Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ARUSA FAMILY (अडूसा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ACANTHACEAE
• Basionym : Andrographis neesiana var. producta C.B.Clarke
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Andrographis producta Gamble.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Flower, Fruit : September-February
• Collector(s) Name : V.T Antony; M.C Lukose, Sunny Mathew
• Collection Locality : Kurisu Mala, Kottayam District
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Shivamogga district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary, Theni district
• Native : India
• Endemism : South India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Sharma B.D, 1984 - Flora of Karnataka Analysis; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Ravichandran, V. and S. Karuppusamy (2016). Check list of Endemic flowering plants of Western Ghats from Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary, Tamil Nadu, India. Journal of Biological Records, e0042016: 36-51.
• 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=Andrographis producta. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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