• Family : ACANTHACEAE
  (Acanthus Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ARUSA FAMILY (अडूसा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ACANTHACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Barleria courtallica Nees
• Vernacular name : Chethasahacharam (Sanskrit); Venkurunji (Malayalam)
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Evergreen and Shola forests
• Comments / notes : On hills above 1000m as an undergrowth in sholas or bordering them in discrete patches
• Flower, Fruit : December-April
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : East Godavari district, West Godavari district, Kurnool district
  • Karnataka : Kodagu (Coorg) district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Alagar Hills (Madurai district), Kolli Hills (Namakkal district)
• Native : India
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; 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=Barleria courtallica. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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