• Family : ACANTHACEAE
  (Acanthus Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ARUSA FAMILY (अडूसा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ACANTHACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Asystasia dalzelliana Santapau
• Common name : Dalzell's Asystasia, Violet Asystasia
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Evergreen and semi-Evergreen forests, on higher hill plains and road cuttings
• Flower, Fruit : July-January
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district, East Godavari district, West Godavari district
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Ballari district, Belagavi district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Tumakuru district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Tamil Nadu : Salem district, Vellore district
• Native : India
• World Distribution : Tropical Asia and Africa
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; Matthew, K.M., The 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; Rao & Razi, 1981 - A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Flora of Udupi district; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
• 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=Asystasia dalzelliana. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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