• Family : TILIACEAE
  (Linden Or Jute Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : FALSA FAMILY (फालसा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : MALVACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Triumfetta malabarica Koen. ex Rottb.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
• Vernacular name : Benki tuttori (Kannada); Adayoti (Tamil); Mendul, Mendurl (Marathi)
• Habit : Undershrub
• Habitat : Open situations and footHills of deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Occasional on plains by wayside or arable lands and also on hill slopes in deciduous forests.
• Flower, Fruit : July-January
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K.Swamy
• Collection Date : 27/09/2010
• Collection Nos : FAP 40118
• Collection Locality : Kalasamudram, Anantapur district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : East Godavari district, Anantapur district, Srikakulam district
  • Karnataka : Ballari district
  • Kerala : Palakkad district, Kottayam district
  • Maharashtra : All districts of Maharashtra
  • Tamil Nadu : Vellore district, Tiruvannamalai district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Coimbatore district, Vellore district, Pudukkottai district, Ramanathapuram district, Salem district, Villipuram district, Cuddalore district, Tirunelveli district
• World Distribution : South Asia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; 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 rotundifolia. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

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