• 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
• Habitat : On slopes of hill forests and stream banks of mixed forests
• Comments / notes : Frequent in Northern Eastern Ghats
• Flower, Fruit : February-April
• Collector(s) Name : Arun Singh, Raja K. Swamy & Navendu Page
• Collection Date : 25/02/2016
• Collection Nos : HJCB-0513
• Collection Locality : Mahanadi Wildlife Sanctuary, Nyagarh district (OD)
• Distribution :
  • Odisha : Mayurbhanj district
• Native : India, Myanmar
• World Distribution : India, Myanmar
• 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; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa
• 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=Lepidagathis purpuricaulis. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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