• Family : OXALIDACEAE
  (Wood Sorrel Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : AMRUL FAMILY (अम्रुल फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : OXALIDACEAE
• Basionym : Oxalis reinwardtii Zucc.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Biophytum reinwardtii (Zucc.) Klotzsch
• Vernacular name : Mukkutti, Theendanazhi (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Weed of cultivation, in moist deciduous forests and in plantations, also in the plains
• Comments / notes : Frequent
• Flower, Fruit : July-December
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K.Swamy & Raja K. Swamy
• Collection Date : 09/12/2010
• Collection Nos : FAP 41953
• Collection Locality : Vemula, Kadapa district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Prakasam district, Kurnool district, East Godavari district, Vishakapatnam district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Maharashtra : Mumbai Suburban district, Chandrapur district, Ratnagiri district, Aurangabad district, Jalna district, Parbhani district, Hingoli district, Beed district, Nanded district, Osmanabad district, Latur district
  • Odisha : Mayurbhanj district
  • Tamil Nadu : The Nilgiri district, Coimbatore district, Tirunelveli district
• Native : Southeast Asia
• World Distribution : India, SE. Asia, China
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1; J.L.Ellis, 1987- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 1; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.
• 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 reinwardtii. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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