• Family : PLUMBAGINACEAE
  (Leadwort Or The Plumbago Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : CHITRAK FAMILY (चित्रक फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : PLUMBAGINACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Plumbago indica L.
• Common name : Rosy flowered Leadwort, Fire plant, Chitrakmool, Radix Plumbago, Scarlett Leadwort
• Vernacular name : Lal Chitra, Rakthchitra, Chitra (Hindi); Kempuchitamool (Kannada); Errachitramulam, Agnimala (Telugu); Rango Chitaparu, Chintamani, Rakto chitaparu, Lal Chita (Oria); Chitraka, Dahanah (Sanskrit); Chethikoduveli, Chivappu-koduveli, Chuvana-koduveli, Koduveli (Malayalam)
• Habit : Undershrub
• Comments / notes : Cultivated or found as an escape. Root is used as abortifacient by the tribals
• Flower, Fruit : September-March
• Distribution :
  • Telangana : Nalgonda district, Khammam district, Mehboobnagar district
• Native : Southeast Asia
• World Distribution : Old World Tropics
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2; 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=Plumbago indica. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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