• Family : ACANTHACEAE
  (Acanthus Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ARUSA FAMILY (अडूसा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ACANTHACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Barleria mysorensis B.Heyne ex Roth
• Vernacular name : Chulli, Karachulli (Malayalam)
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Deciduous forests and in exposed rocky localities and plains
• Key identification features : Shrubs with prickles, blue or purple flowers; spines usually long
• Flower, Fruit : July-March
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district, Kadapa district, Nellore district, Prakasam district
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Chikkamagaluru district, Chitradurga district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Ramanagara district, Tumakuru district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Alappuzha district, Kollam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Dharmapuri district, Kanyakumari district, Madurai district, Vellore district, Tiruvannamalai district, Tirunelveli district, Vellore district, Villipuram district, Salem district
• Native : India, Sri Lanka
• World Distribution : Pantropical
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Sharma B.D, 1984 - Flora of Karnataka Analysis; Shendage & Yadav 2010. Revision of the Genus Barleria (Acanthaceae) in India. Rheedea Vol.20 (2): 81-130; 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 mysorensis. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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