• 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) : Exacum pedunculatum L.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Grasslands
• Comments / notes : Occasional in Western Ghats, along roadsides
• Flower, Fruit : August-December
• Collection Nos : HFP 916, CJS 15320
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Belagavi district, Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Davanagare district, Hassan district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district, Udupi district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Idukki district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Central and Southwest India
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; 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=Exacum carinatum. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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