• Family : ACANTHACEAE
  (Acanthus Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ARUSA FAMILY (अडूसा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ACANTHACEAE
• Basionym : Justicia montana Roxb.
• Synonym(s) : Eranthemum montanum (Roxb.) Roxb.; Daedalacanthus montanus (Roxb.) T. Anderson
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Eranthemum capense L.
• Vernacular name : Krungu (Tamil)
• Habit : Undershrub
• Habitat : Semi-evergreen and moist deciduous forests and sacred groves
• Comments / notes : Occasional on hills above 500m and also on shola floors
• Flower, Fruit : September-April
• Collector(s) Name : Arun Singh, Navendu Page, Raja K. Swamy & K. Sankara Rao
• Collection Date : 24/03/2016
• Collection Nos : HJCB-0634
• Collection Locality : Kolli Hills Ghat road, Namakkal district (TN)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district, East Godavari district, Chittoor district, Kadapa district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Odisha : Fairly common in the forest undergrowth
  • Tamil Nadu : Namakkal district, Dindigul district
• Native : India, Sri Lanka
• World Distribution : Peninsular India and Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; 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=Eranthemum capense. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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