• Family : AGAVACEAE
  (Agave Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : RAJANIGANDHA FAMILY (रजनीगंधा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ASPARAGACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Sansevieria zeylanica Roxb. non Willd.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Sansevieria roxburghiana Schult. & Schult.f.
• Common name : Indian bowstring hemp
• Vernacular name : Naghin (Marathi); Murga (Oria); Murul, Murva (Hindi); Chega, Chamakada-nara, Sagal, Niyanda (Telugu); Maran, Manji, Muramachi (Malayalam)
• Habit : Undershrub
• Habitat : Gregarious as an undergrowth in rocky crevices in dry deciduous forests also in the plains
• Comments / notes : On foothills to 1400m, on dry slopes in crevices of rocks, less in plains in scrub jungles.
• Flower, Fruit : July-December
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy, Arun Singh & K. Sankara Rao
• Collection Date : 26/11/2014
• Collection Nos : HJCB-E-261
• Collection Locality : Papavinasanam, Tirumala Hills, Chittoor district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : All districts of Andhra Pradesh
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Nagpur district, Osmanabad district
  • Odisha : Puri district, Bolangir district, Angul district
  • Tamil Nadu : Throughout Tamil Nadu
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons; 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=Sansevieria roxburghiana. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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