- Family : MARANTACEAE
(Arrowroot Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : TIKHOR FAMILY
- Family (as per The APG System III) : MARANTACEAE
- Basionym : Phrynium virgatum Roxb.
- Synonym(s) : Maranta virgata (Roxb.) Wall. ex Wight
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Schumannianthus virgatus (Roxb.) Rolfe
- Vernacular name : Channa, Kookkila, Malamkoova, Kattukuppa (Malayalam)
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Marshy areas in evergreen, semi-evergreen and moist deciduous forests
- Comments / notes : Common across ghats
- Flower, Fruit : January-August
- Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy & Neol Sebastian
- Collection Date : 21-11-2018
- Collection Nos : HFP 49, CJS 13456; HJCB-1719
- Collection Locality : Peruvanthanam, Idukki district, Kerala
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Shivamogga district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Dakshina Kannada district
- Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Herbarium specimen from Peruvanthanam, Idukki district, Kerala (not scanned)
- 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=Schumannianthus virgatus. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.
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