• Family : PODOSTEMACEAE
  (River Weed Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : PODOSTEMON FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : PODOSTEMACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : In hill streams, attached to rocks in rivers
• Comments / notes : An annual plant occuring on smooth rocks in fast flowing rivers.
• Flower, Fruit : January-March
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Mysuru district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Odisha : Koraput district
• Native : India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand
• World Distribution : India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.; Saldanha, C.J. (1996). Flora of Karnataka vol. 2. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi Rao & Razi, 1981 – MA Synoptic Flora of ysore; District Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Cflora of oorg District
• 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=Zeylanidium lichenoides. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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