• Family : AMARANTHACEAE
  (Amaranth Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : GARUNDI FAMILY (गरूण्डी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : AMARANTHACEAE
• Basionym : Achyranthes lappacea L.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Pupalia lappacea (L.) Juss.
• Habit : Undershrub
• Habitat : Plains and foothills of deciduous forests, also in some areas in moist deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Often on hills to 1000m, in aggressive clumps by the wayside, dry slopes, river banks etc, often straggling on thickets. Fruits generally stick to clothing.
• Flower, Fruit : July-January
• Collector(s) Name : K. Sankara Rao, Arun Singh & Raja K. Swamy
• Collection Date : 26/11/2015
• Collection Nos : HJCB-0405
• Collection Locality : Palamaneru forest, Chittoor district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Anantapur district, Chittoor district, Kadapa district, East Godavari district, Guntur district, Krishna district, Kurnool district, Nellore district, Prakasam district, Srikakulam district, Vishakapatnam district, Vizianagaram district, West Godavari district
  • Telangana : Nalgonda district, Khammam district, Mehboobnagar district
  • Karnataka : Ballari district, Kolar district, Chamarajanagar district
  • Kerala : Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki 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
  • Tamil Nadu : 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, Sri Lanka,Malesia, East Africa
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : J.L.Ellis, 1990- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 2; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). 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=Pupalia lappacea. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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