• Family : ARACEAE
  (Arum Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : OAL FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ARACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Lagenandra ovata (L.) Thwaites
• Vernacular name : Vatsanab (Marathi); Aandavazha, Karin-pola (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : In marshy places along the streams
• Flower, Fruit : February-May
• Collection Nos : HFP 76, CJS 13016
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Belagavi district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Mumbai-City district, Ratnagiri district, Sindhudurg district
• Native : India
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state – Monocotyledons; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• 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=Lagenandra ovata. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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