• Family : ACANTHACEAE
  (Acanthus Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ARUSA FAMILY (अडूसा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ACANTHACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Barleria sepalosa C.B.Clarke; Barleria beddomei T.Anderson ex Bedd.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Barleria lawii T.Anderson
• Common name : Law's Barleria
• Vernacular name : Mayurpunk (Hindi); Kurubakah (Sanskrit)
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Shola forests
• Comments / notes : Flowers open between 5 and 7 pm and remain till next one and half day
• Key identification features : Erect shrub, terete branches, appressedly hairy. Internodes long. Flowers solitary, axillary, linear-lanceolate hairy. Sepals hairy on both surface, strongly nerved. Corolla parallel-nerved, white slightly hairy outside.
• Flower, Fruit : October-March
• Collection Nos : CS 799
• Collection Locality : Khandala, Maharasthra
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Thiruvananthapuram district, Kollam district, Alappuzha district, Pathanamthitta district, Kottayam district, Malappuram district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Sharma B.D, 1984 - Flora of Karnataka Analysis; Shendage & Yadav in Rheedea Vol.20, 2010; 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=Barleria lawii. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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