• Family : ACANTHACEAE
  (Acanthus Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ARUSA FAMILY (अडूसा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ACANTHACEAE
• Basionym : Justicia alata Vahl
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Andrographis alata (Vahl) Nees
• Vernacular name : Peria nangai (Tamil)
• Habit : Undershrub
• Habitat : Moist deciduous forests and grasslands
• Comments / notes : From foothills to 1200m in moist deciduous and deciduous forests
• Flower, Fruit : November-March
• Collector(s) Name : K. Sankara Rao, Raja K. Swamy, Arun Singh & Navendu Page
• Collection Date : 23/03/2016
• Collection Nos : HJCB-0585
• Collection Locality : Karadiyur, Yercaud Hills, Salem district (TN)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district, Vishakapatnam district
  • Karnataka : Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district
  • Kerala : Palakkad district
  • Tamil Nadu : Salem district
• Native : India, Sri Lanka
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; 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; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka state; Rao & Razi, 1981 - A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District, Karnataka state; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state
• 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=Andrographis alata. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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