• Family : POLYGONACEAE
  (Buckwheat Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : JANGLI PALAK FAMILY (जंगली पालक फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : POLYGONACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Persicaria minor (Huds.) Opiz
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Persicaria minor (Huds.) Opiz
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Marshy areas in grasslands of the higher ranges
• Comments / notes : Occasional near water cources
• Flower, Fruit : January-July
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Idukki district
  • Odisha : Keonjhar district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Dindigul district, The Nilgiri district, Tirunelveli district
• World Distribution : India, Himalayas, Europe, Asia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1987). Flora of Tamilnadu, India vol. 2.
• 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=Polygonum minus. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

Botanical Description