• Family : ACANTHACEAE
  (Acanthus Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ARUSA FAMILY (अडूसा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ACANTHACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Dicliptera zeylanica Nees
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Dicliptera foetida (Forssk.) Blatt.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Occasional along roadsides and edges of thickets in evergreen forests
• Key identification features : A much-branched herb, prostrate. Corolla deep rose or pink
• Flower, Fruit : November-April
• Collector(s) Name : K.P.Sreenath & S.R.Ramesh
• Collection Nos : KFP 10813
• Collection Locality : Dandeli (Uttara Kannada)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district
  • Karnataka : Belagavi district, Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district, Udupi district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Kozhikode district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Thrissur district
• Native : India
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; 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=Dicliptera foetida. Downloaded on 4 April 2025.

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