• Family : HYDROCHARITACEAE
  (Frog's-Bit Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : JHANGI FAMILY (झांगी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : HYDROCHARITACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Blyxa echinosperma (C.B.Clarke) Hook.f.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Submerged in stagnant water bodies
• Comments / notes : Weed in stagnant water pools, often on hills to 1000m
• Flower, Fruit : July-February
• Distribution :
  • Maharashtra : Mumbai Suburban district, Satara district, Raigad district, Sindhudurg district
  • Odisha : Mayurbhanj district, Bargarh district
  • Tamil Nadu : Namakkal district, Dharmapuri district
• Native : India to Malaysia
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Myanmar, China, Japan, Malaysia, Tropical Australia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; 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.
• 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=Blyxa echinosperma. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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