• Family : GENTIANACEAE
  (Gentian Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : BHUIN NEEM FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : GENTIANACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Centaurium centaurioides (Roxb.) S.R.Rao & Hemadri
• Vernacular name : Luntak (Marathi)
• Habit : Herb
• Comments / notes : Common in and near fields
• Flower, Fruit : December-April
• Collector(s) Name : C.J.Saldanha
• Collection Nos : CJS 14270, CJS 16298
• Collection Locality : Holenarsipur road (Hassan)
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Belagavi district, Chikkamagaluru district, Dharwad district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district, Hassan district, Kolar district, Shivamogga district, Tumakuru district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Maharashtra : Akola district
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Seetharam et al., 2000 - Gulbarga; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District; N.P.Singh, 1988- Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Kamble & Pradhan, 1988. Flora of Akola District, Maharashtra. Botanical Survey of India.
• 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=Centaurium roxburghii. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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