• Family : ACANTHACEAE
  (Acanthus Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ARUSA FAMILY (अडूसा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ACANTHACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Haplanthodes nilgherrensis (Wight) R.B.Majumdar
• Habit : Herb
• Comments / notes : Frequent in shaded places, moist deciduous forests
• Key identification features : Highly branched herbs with quadrangular branches; Leaves glabrous, attenuate; Petiole long; Infloresecence in terminal spikes terminal, dense, hairy; Calyx long, lobed,hairy; Corolla long, lobed hairy; Style slender, Stigma linear; Fruit a oblong capsule; Seeds hairy.
• Flower, Fruit : December-March
• Collection Nos : KFP 6886
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district, Udupi district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kollam district
• Native : India
• Endemism : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Sharma B.D, 1984 - Flora of Karnataka Analysis; 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=Haplanthodes nilgherrensis. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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