- Family : SCROPHULARIACEAE
(Figwort Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : BRAHMI FAMILY (ब्राह्मी फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : LINDERNIACEAE
- Basionym : Gratiola oppositifolia Retz.
- Synonym(s) : Bonnaya oppositifolia (Retz.) Spreng.; Vandellia oppositifolia (Retz.) Haines; Ilysanthes oppositifolia (Retz.) Urban
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Marshy areas, also on plains, on the floor of scrub jungles up to 1000m.
- Comments / notes : Some higher altitude specimens are much smaller in size
- Flower, Fruit : July-January
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district, Chittoor district, Srikakulam district
- Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Mysuru district, Tumakuru district, Udupi district, Dakshina Kannada district
- Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Idukki district
- Tamil Nadu : Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Dindigul district
- Native : South Asia
- Endemism : Peninsular India
- World Distribution : South and SE. Asia
- Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
- Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. ; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 – Flora of Bangalore District; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi District; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur 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=Lindernia oppositifolia. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.
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