• Family : LOGANIACEAE
  (Logania Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : KAJARA FAMILY (कजरा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LOGANIACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Mitrasacme indica Wight
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Degraded moist deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Occasional on plains in moist gravelly ground.
• Flower, Fruit : August-November
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : East Godavari district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Ernakulam district, Alappuzha district, Pathanamthitta district
  • Odisha : Mayurbhanj district, Keonjhar district, Sambalpur district
  • Tamil Nadu : Tiruchirapalli district, Villipuram district, Cuddalore district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Indo-China, Japan, Australia, Malaysia, Phillipines, New Guinea
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; 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=Mitrasacme indica. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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