• Family : POLYGONACEAE
  (Buckwheat Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : JANGLI PALAK FAMILY (जंगली पालक फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : POLYGONACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Persicaria pulchra (Blume) Soják
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Along water courses in semi-evergreen and moist deciduous forests, also marshy areas in the plains
• Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district, West Godavari district, Srikakulam district
  • Karnataka : Dharwad district, Uttara Kannada district, Hassan district
  • Kerala : Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Alappuzha district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district, Cuttack district, Keonjhar district
  • Tamil Nadu : All districts of Tamil Nadu
• Native : India
• World Distribution : India, Tropical Africa, South Africa, Sri Lanka to Malesia
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. ; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; 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=Polygonum pulchrum. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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