- Family : OXALIDACEAE
(Wood Sorrel Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : AMRUL FAMILY (अम्रुल फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : OXALIDACEAE
- Synonym(s) : Biophytum sensitivum var. candolleanum (Wight) Edgew. & Hook.f.
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Biophytum sensitivum (L.) DC.
- Vernacular name : Lajvanthi, Lajalu (Hindi); Jhullipuspa (Sanskrit); Nilamthengu (Malayalam)
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Open and moist situations, dry deciduous forests and grasslands
- Comments / notes : Occasional on hills above 900m. Locally abundant in pasturelands, floor of shaded woods.
- Flower, Fruit : February-September
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : East Godavari district
- Kerala : Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Maharashtra : All districts of Maharashtra
- Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Dharmapuri district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Ramanathapuram district, Salem district, Tirunelveli district
- Native : India, Sri Lanka
- World Distribution : Indomalyan tropics, Sri Lanka
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1; Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; 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=Biophytum candolleanum. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.
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