• Family : MALVACEAE
  (Mallow Or Hibiscus Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : GURHAL FAMILY (गुड़हल फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : MALVACEAE
• Basionym : Lebretonia procumbens Wight & Arn.
• Synonym(s) : Pavonia glechomifolia (A.Rich.) Garcke
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Pavonia procumbens (Wight & Arn.) Walp.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Scrub jungles, dry deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Common wayside of forests, arable lands and waste lands
• Flower, Fruit : September-February
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy
• Collection Date : 14/09/2010
• Collection Nos : FAP 39530
• Collection Locality : Kalasamudram, Anantapur district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Anantapur district
  • Karnataka : Mysuru district, Kolar district
  • Kerala : Idukki district, Kollam district
  • Tamil Nadu : All hills of Tamil Nadu
• World Distribution : East Africa, Arabia, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Malesia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; N.P. Sing & S. Karthikeyan 2000. Flora of Maharashtra vol 1; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; 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=Pavonia procumbens. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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