• Family : AIZOACEAE
  (Carpet-Weed Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : VISHAKHAPARA FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : AIZOACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Trianthema triquetra Rottler & Willd.
• Vernacular name : Naye soppu (Kannada)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Wastelands and in saline soil in fallow fields
• Flower, Fruit : June-January
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kadapa district, Anantapur district
  • Karnataka : Bellary district
  • Kerala : Kozhikode district
  • Odisha : Puri district, Khurda district, Ganjam district, Cuttack district, Kendrapara district
  • Tamil Nadu : Dharmapuri district
• World Distribution : Tropical Africa, Arabia, India, Malaysia, Australia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2; Pullaiah et al., 2007 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 3; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; 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=Trianthema triquetra var. triquetra. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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