• Family : SALVINIACEAE
  (SALVINIA FAMILY)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : SALVINIACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Azolla imbricata (Roxb. ex Griff.) Nakai; Azolla pinnata var. imbricata (Roxb. ex Griff.) Bonap.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Not Found in The Plant List
• Habit : Herb-Aquatic
• Comments / notes : Abundant and widespread over large areas in India and Asia. (Jenkins, 2008)
• Fertile : August-December
• Collector(s) Name : S. S. Hooper & K. N. Gandhi; PK Rajagopal
• Collection Date : 06/08/89
• Collection Nos : HFP 2498; PKR 61
• Collection Locality : Mokali, Hassan district; Indrali, Udupi dist.
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Srikakulam district
  • Telangana : Nalgonda district, Khammam district, Mehboobnagar district
  • Karnataka : Ballari district, Kolar district, Chamarajanagar district, Hassan district, Udupi district
  • Odisha : Angul district, Balasore district, Bargarh district, Bolangir district, Boudh district, Cuttack district, Deogarh district, Dhenkanal district, Gajapati district, Ganjam district, Kalhandi district, Kandhamal district, Kendrapara district, Keonjhar district, Khurda district, Koraput district, Malkangiri district, Mayurbhanj district, Puri district, Rayagada district,Sambalpur district, Sundergarh district, PLN
  • Tamil Nadu : CGP, Coimbatore district, Dindigul district, Dharmapuri district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Karur district, Krishnagiri district, Madurai district, Namakkal district, Pudukkottai district, Sivaganga district, Salem district, Tiruchirapalli district, Tiruvannamalai district, Villipuram district, Vellore district
• World Distribution : India, Nepal, China, South Korea, Formosa, Ryukyu Islands, Japan
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Fraser-Jenkins, Taxonomic revision of Indian Subcontinental Pteridophytes 2008; H.O. Saxena and M. Brahmam. 1996. The Flora of Orissa, Vol-4; Rolla Seshagiri Rao. 1986. Flora of Srikakulam; Manickam, V.S., & Irudayaraj, V. (1992). Pteriodophyte Flora of the Western Ghats - South India. B.I.Publications Pvt. Ltd.
• 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=Azolla pinnata subsp. asiatica. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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