• Family : LYTHRACEAE
  (Loose-Strife Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : MEHNDI FAMILY (मेंहंदी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LYTHRACEAE
• Basionym : Ammannia rotundifolia Buch.-Ham. ex Roxb.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Rotala rotundifolia (Buch.-Ham. ex Roxb.) Koehne
• Vernacular name : Painlatkana (Oria)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Along streams and marshy areas
• Comments / notes : Occasional on moist places and margins of lakes above 1000m.
• Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district
  • Karnataka : Belagavi district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Odisha : Gajapati district
  • Tamil Nadu : Salem district
• World Distribution : South and Southeast Asia, Japan, China
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2007 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 3; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. ; 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 rotundifolia. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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