• Family : SCROPHULARIACEAE
  (Figwort Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : BRAHMI FAMILY (ब्राह्मी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LINDERNIACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
• Vernacular name : Kakkapoovu (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Marshy areas
• Comments / notes : Occasional in wet low lands
• Key identification features : A procumbent herb, rooting at lower nodes
• Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy & Noel Sebastian
• Collection Date : 26-11-2018
• Collection Nos : HFP 1980, CJS 15528; HJCB-1874
• Collection Locality : Mamalakandam, Idukki district, Kerala
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Davanagare district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
• Native : India
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Herbarium specimen from Mamalakandam, Idukki district, Kerala (not scanned)
• 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=Torenia bicolor. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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