- Family : BUDDLEJACEAE
(Butterfly-Bush Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : BUDDLEJA FAMILY
- Family (as per The APG System III) : SCROPHULARIACEAE
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Buddleja asiatica Lour.
- Common name : White Butterfly Bush
- Vernacular name : Ninda (Hindi); Karkkattan (Tamil); Ninda (Oria)
- Habit : Shrub
- Comments / notes : Degraded forests. Occasional on hills up to 1600m,along shallow river banks, ravines, shola borders.
- Flower, Fruit : October-May
- Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy, Sringeshwara & Noel Sebastian
- Collection Date : 30-10-2018
- Collection Nos : HJCB-1505
- Collection Locality : Thollayiram forest, Wayanad district, Kerala
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district
- Karnataka : Kolar district
- Kerala : Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Kollam district
- Odisha : Mayurbhanj district, Bargarh district, Keonjhar district
- Tamil Nadu : Namakkal district, Salem district
- World Distribution : India, Southeast Asia, China, Pakistan, Malaysia
- 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. 2; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Herbarium specimen from Thollayiram forest, Wayanad district, Kerala (not scanned)
- 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=Buddleja asiatica. Downloaded on 11 November 2024.
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