• Family : LYTHRACEAE
  (Loose-Strife Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : MEHNDI FAMILY (मेंहंदी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LYTHRACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Waterlogged areas in deciduous forests; on open exposed slopes in moist ground
• Comments / notes : On hills above 1000m; also a weed in rice fields
• Flower, Fruit : December-January
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy
• Collection Date : 22/01/2013
• Collection Nos : FAP 41876
• Collection Locality : Kalasamudram, Anantapur district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Anantapur district
  • Kerala : Idukki district
  • Odisha : Throughout Odisha
  • Tamil Nadu : Namakkal district, Salem district, Vellore district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Central Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. ; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Matthew, K.M., 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=Rotala illecebroides. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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