• Family : SCROPHULARIACEAE
  (Figwort Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : BRAHMI FAMILY (ब्राह्मी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : PLANTAGINACEAE
• Basionym : Cyrilla aquatica Roxb.
• Synonym(s) : Limnophila racemosa Benth.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
• Vernacular name : Kuttra (Hindi) Keralata (Oria)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Pools, flooded paddy fields
• Key identification features : Aquatic herb. Flowers large, purple. Leaves two types
• Flower, Fruit : July-March
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Thrissur district, Ernakulam district, Kottayam district, Alappuzha district, Kollam district
  • Odisha : Cuttack district, Ganjam district, Khurda district
• World Distribution : India, Indo-Malesia and East and South China
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2; 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=Limnophila aquatica. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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