• Family : ARACEAE
  (Arum Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : OAL FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ARACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Theriophonum minutum (Willd.) Baill.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Shady places
• Comments / notes : Scattered in shady places. Also on plains and on the floor of scrub jungles, often sheltered by thorny plants, wastelands
• Flower, Fruit : August-October
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district, Krishna district
  • Telangana : Adilabad district, Nizamabad district
  • Maharashtra : Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Sindhudurg district, Yavatmal district
  • Odisha : Angul district, Kalhandi district, Cuttack district, Ganjam district, Khurda district
  • Tamil Nadu : Throughout Tamil Nadu
• Native : India
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : J.L.Ellis, 1990- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 2; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983.
• 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=Theriophonum minutum. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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