• Family : COMMELINACEAE
  (Spiderwort Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : KANA FAMILY (काना फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : COMMELINACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Commelina diffusa Burm.f.
• Common name : Climbing Day Flower, Creeping dayflower
• Vernacular name : Gandologi (Marathi)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Sandy soil in dry deciduous forests and scrub forests
• Comments / notes : Often on plains to 1400m, on perennially moist places.
• Flower, Fruit : April-November
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy, Arun Singh & K. Sankar Rao; Raja K. Swamy, Arun Singh & K. Sankara Rao
• Collection Date : 27-11-2014; 26-11-2014
• Collection Nos : HJCB-0234; HJCB-0198
• Collection Locality : Sadasivakona, Chittoor district (AP); Papavinasanam, Tirumal Hills, Chittoor district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Belagavi district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Akola district, Amravati district, Mumbai Suburban district, Mumbai-City district, Chandrapur district, Kolhapur district, Nagpur district, Nashik district, Osmanabad district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Solapur district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
  • Odisha : Frequent in damp places
  • Tamil Nadu : Throughout Tamil Nadu
• Native : India
• World Distribution : Pantropical, Warm temperate regions
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : J.L.Ellis, 1990- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 2; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. ; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons; Pullaiah, 1997. Fl. Andhra Pradesh, vol. 3; 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=Commelina diffusa. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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