• Family : ACANTHACEAE
  (Acanthus Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ARUSA FAMILY (अडूसा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ACANTHACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Strobilanthes callosa Nees
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
• Common name : Karvi
• Vernacular name : Maruadana (Hindi)
• Habit : Shrub
• Comments / notes : Flowers once in seven to eight years
• Key identification features : Shrubs with rigid, rough and warted stems. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate with crenate margins and strongly lineolate on the upper surface. Flowers in sub-tetragonal spikes with rounded edges. Bracts covered with viscious secretion with a balsamic but not agreeable odour, green with pink tinge. Disc bright orange. Calyx segmented, leathery, softly pubescent; corolla with a white tube and a purple limb, glabrous outside with yellow hairs.
• Flower, Fruit : September-November
• Native : India
• Endemism : Central and Peninsular India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Sharma B.D, 1984 - Flora of Karnataka Analysis
• 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=Carvia callosa. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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