• Family : XYRIDACEAE
  (Yellow-Eyed Grass Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : XYRIS FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : XYRIDACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Xyris indica L.
• Vernacular name : Dadumari (Marathi)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Marshy areas
• Comments / notes : Frequent in rice-fields, ditches and marshy areas
• Flower, Fruit : August-February
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Ratnagiri district, Sindhudurg district
  • Odisha : Puri district, Khurda district, Ganjam district, Cuttack district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Laos, Malesia, Australia, Indo-china
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons; The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2015-3. . Downloaded on 10 October 2015; 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=Xyris indica. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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