• Family : ACANTHACEAE
  (Acanthus Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ARUSA FAMILY (अडूसा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ACANTHACEAE
• Basionym : Nilgirianthus ciliatus (Nees) Bremek.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
• Vernacular name : Karvi (Hindi); Sahacharah (Sanskrit); Cherukurunji, Chinnikurunji, Karimkurunji, Kurunji, Vellakurunji (Malayalam)
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Along stream banks in evergreen and semi-evergreen forests
• Flower, Fruit : December-May
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Udupi district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Dindigul district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Southern Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; 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=Strobilanthes ciliatus. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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