• Family : TILIACEAE
  (Linden Or Jute Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : FALSA FAMILY (फालसा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : MALVACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Triumfetta annua L.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Moist hill slopes and hill tops
• Comments / notes : Frequent in open forests and grasslands especially in the hills
• Flower, Fruit : August-March
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : East Godavari district
  • Karnataka : Ballari district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Mumbai Suburban district, Nashik district, Pune district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
  • Odisha : Mayurbhanj district
  • Tamil Nadu : Salem district, The Nilgiri district
• World Distribution : Tropical Africa, India, Pakistan, East-Indies, Madagascar
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.
• 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=Triumfetta annua. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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