• Family : PORTULACACEAE
  (Purslane Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : LUNIA FAMILY (लुनिया फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : PORTULACACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Not found in The Plant List
• Habit : Herb
• Comments / notes : Occasional in plains and foothills of scrub jungles in low-lying gravelly soil
• Flower, Fruit : July-September
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Mysuru district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Dharmapuri district, The Nilgiri district, Ramanathapuram district, Villipuram district, Cuddalore district, Tirunelveli district, Salem district, Tiruchirapalli district
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Flora of Bangalore district, Karnataka state; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Matthew, K.M., 1983. The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1); Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.
• 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=Portulaca suffruticosa. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

Botanical Description