• Family : ZYGOPHYLLACEAE
  (Caltrop Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : GOKHARU FAMILY (गोखरू फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ZYGOPHYLLACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Fagonia mysorensis B.Heyne ex Roth
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Fagonia indica Burm.f.
• Habit : Shrub
• Comments / notes : Occasional on sandy soils of dry deciduous open forests.
• Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Anantapur district
  • Karnataka : Ballari district, Vijayapura (Bijapur) district, Chitradurga district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district, Tumakuru district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Ramanathapuram district
• World Distribution : Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Arabia, Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, Egypt, Libya
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; Saldanha, C.J. (1996). Flora of Karnataka vol. 2. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Seetharam et al., 2000 – Flora of Gulbarga
• 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=Fagonia indica. Downloaded on 7 September 2024.

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