• Family : OXALIDACEAE
  (Wood Sorrel Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : AMRUL FAMILY (अम्रुल फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : OXALIDACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Biophytum apodiscias (Turcz.) Edgew. & Hook.f.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Biophytum umbraculum Welw.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Shaded places, wastelands, riverbanks and in the crevices of rocks
• Flower, Fruit : August-November
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Hassan district
  • Kerala : Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Odisha : Sambalpur district
• Native : Tropical Africa, South Asia
• World Distribution : Tropical Africa, Madagascar and Tropical Southeast Asia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa 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 petersianum. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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