• 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) : Unresolved name
• Habit : Herb
• Comments / notes : Rare in moist deciduous forests
• Flower, Fruit : August-September
• Collection Nos : HFP 257, CJS 14435
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Ballari district, Chikkamagaluru district, Davanagare district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district, Hassan district, Raichur district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Idukki district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Kottayam district
  • Maharashtra : Akola district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Southwest India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Seetharam et al., 2000 – Flora of Gulbarga District; Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere District; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Kamble & Pradhan, 1988. Flora of Akola District, Maharashtra. Botanical Survey of India
• 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=Justicia neesii. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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