• Family : PRIMULACEAE
  (Primrose Or Primula Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : KRISHNANEEL FAMILY (कृष्ण नील फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : PRIMULACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Anagallis pumila Swartz
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Grasslands
• Comments / notes : On hills above 800m, on moist slopes, stream banks and fallow fields etc.
• Flower, Fruit : July-February
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district, East Godavari district
  • Karnataka : Kolar district
  • Kerala : Idukki district
  • Odisha : Mayurbhanj district
• World Distribution : India, Africa, Himalayan Islands, Timor, Australia, Tropical America
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan; Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnataka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Flora of Udupi; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
• 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=Anagallis pumila. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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