• Family : CRASSULACEAE
  (Orpine Or Stonecrop Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : AMAR POI FAMILY (अमर पोई फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : CRASSULACEAE
• Basionym : Cotyledon laciniata L.
• Synonym(s) : Kalanchoe brasiliensis Cambess.; Kalanchoe schweinfurthii Penzig
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Kalanchoe laciniata (L.) DC.
• Vernacular name : Nununni gida (Kannada); Kattu pirandai (Tamil); Astthi-bhaksha, Ilamulachi, Elamulachi (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Moist and dry deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : On foothills to 1400m by fully-exposed rocks; in occasional clumps
• Flower, Fruit : December-February
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district, Chittoor district, West Godavari district, Srikakulam district
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Vijayapura (Bijapur) district, Chikkamagaluru district, Dharwad district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Kolar district, Mysuru district, Tumakuru district
  • Kerala : Palakkad district, Idukki district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Dindigul district
• Native : India
• World Distribution : India, Bangladesh, China, Myanmar
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2007 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 3; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan District; Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnataka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg District; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District
• 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=Kalanchoe laciniata. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

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