• Family : GESNERIACEAE
  (Gesneria Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : CHARELA FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : GESNERIACEAE
• Basionym : Wulfenia notoniana Wall.
• Synonym(s) : Klugia notoniana (Wall.) A. DC.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Moist shady areas in evergreen and semi-Evergreen forests
• Key identification features : A succulent annual herb
• Flower, Fruit : July-December
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy & Noel Sebastian
• Collection Date : 21-11-2018; 23-11-2018
• Collection Nos : CJS 14792, CJS 14640; HJCB-1709; HJCB-1761
• Collection Locality : Peruvanthanam and Devikulam, Idukki district, Kerala
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Udupi district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Herbarium specimen from Peruvananthanam, Idukki, Kerala
• 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=Rhynchoglossum notonianum. Downloaded on 3 April 2025.

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