Herbarium JCB

Limnophyton obtusifolium (L.) Miq.

Family : ALISMATACEAE
(Water-Plantain Or Arrowhead Family)
Family (Hindi name) : ALISMA FAMILY
Family (as per The APG System III) : ALISMATACEAE
Basionym : Sagittaria obtusifolia L.
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Limnophyton obtusifolium (L.) Miq.
Common name : Arrow Head
Vernacular name : Nalkut (Marathi)
Habit : Herb
Habitat : In margins of tanks. Often on hills from 350m, in stagnant ponds and marshes
Comments / notes : Latex milky, sparse, drying sticky.
Flower, Fruit : December-August
Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Kadapa district, Anantapur district, Nellore district, Prakasam district
- Telangana : Adilabad district, Nizamabad district
- Karnataka : Kolar district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Tumakuru district
- Kerala : Thrissur district, Ernakulam district, Alappuzha district, Kollam district
- Maharashtra : Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Chandrapur district, Nagpur district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Thane district, Yavatmal district
- Odisha : Cuttack district, Ganjam district, Kalhandi district
- Tamil Nadu : Dharmapuri district
Native : Asia, Africa
World Distribution : Tropical Africa, Madagascar through Southeast Asia to Malaysia
Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. ; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Pullaiah, 1997. Fl. Andhra Pradesh, vol. 3; Nayar, T. S., et al, 2006. Flowering plants of Kerala, A hand book
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=Limnophyton obtusifolium. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.