• Family : POLYGALACEAE
  (Milkwort Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : SANJIVANI FAMILY (संजीवनी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : POLYGALACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Grasslands and degraded forests
• Comments / notes : Often in open grasslands
• Flower, Fruit : June-May
• Collector(s) Name : Honey John A
• Collection Locality : Changanassery, Kottayam District;
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Rajahmandry East Godavari district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Dharmapuri district, Madurai district, Ramanathapuram district, Salem district, Tirunelveli district
• Native : India
• Endemism : South India
• World Distribution : India
• 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; 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=Polygala bolbothrix. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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