• Family : PHYTOLACCACEAE
  (Pokeweed Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : POKEBERRY FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : PHYTOLACCACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Petiveria alliacea L.
• Habit : Undershrub
• Habitat : Waste places
• Flower, Fruit : June-March
• Collection Nos : KFP 12497
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district
  • Kerala : Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Sangli district
• Native : Central America
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; N.P. Singh, P. Lakshminarasimhan, S. Karthikeyan & P. V. Prasanna (2001). Flora of Maharashtra state, Dicotyledones. Vol. 2. Botanical survey of India, Govt. India.
• 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=Petiveria alliacea. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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