• Family : SCROPHULARIACEAE
  (Figwort Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : BRAHMI FAMILY (ब्राह्मी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : PLANTAGINACEAE
• Basionym : Manulea indiana Lour.
• Synonym(s) : Adenosma capitatum (Benth.) Benth. ex Hance; Adenosma bilabiata (Roxb.) Merr.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Adenosma indianum (Lour.) Merr.
• Vernacular name : Rasnajadi (Oria); Kasithumba (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Deciduous and semi-evergreen forest and grasslands
• Comments / notes : Near water bodies
• Flower, Fruit : June-January
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Udupi district
  • Kerala : Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Kottayam district, Alappuzha district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district, Cuttack district, Sambalpur district, Khurda district
• World Distribution : Indo-Malesia
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi District; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
• 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=Adenosma indianum. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

Botanical Description

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