- Family : ELATINACEAE
(Waterwort Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : ELATINE FAMILY
- Family (as per The APG System III) : ELATINACEAE
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Bergia capensis L.
- Vernacular name : Nandu kollupu chedi (Tamil)
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Fallow lands, paddy fields and grasslands
- Comments / notes : Along banks of ponds and lakes, also paddy fields
- Key identification features : Succulent marsh herb, rooting at the nodes. Stem reddish, constricted at the nodes.
- Flower, Fruit : August-December
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Tirumala Hills (Chittoor district)
- Karnataka : Mysuru district
- Kerala : Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Thrissur district, Ernakulam district, Kottayam district, Alappuzha district, Kollam district
- Maharashtra : Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Nanded district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Sindhudurg district
- Tamil Nadu : Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Coimbatore district, Madurai district, Thanjavur district, Tiruchirapalli district, Salem district, Villipuram district, Cuddalore district
- World Distribution : India, Africa, Iraq, Caucasus, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Java
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; Franklin Benjamin & G.V.S.Murthy, 2013. Flora of Sri Venkateswara National Park, Andhra Pradesh, BSI.; 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; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.
- 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=Bergia capensis. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.
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