• Family : SCROPHULARIACEAE
  (Figwort Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : BRAHMI FAMILY (ब्राह्मी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : PHRYMACEAE
• Basionym : Limosella diandra L.
• Synonym(s) : Glossostigma spathulatum (Hook.) Arn.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Glossostigma diandrum (L.) Kuntze
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Moist places
• Comments / notes : Occasional on plains by banks of ponds and in marshy places.
• Flower, Fruit : August-March
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Anantapur district
  • Karnataka : Kodagu (Coorg) district, Hassan district, Tumakuru district
  • Kerala : Alappuzha district
  • Odisha : Cuttack district
  • Tamil Nadu : Tiruchirapalli district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district
• Native : India, Bangladesh, Australia, Cameroon
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Tropical Africa, Australia
• 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; 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 District; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg District; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District
• 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=Glossostigma diandrum. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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