- Family : THYMELAEACEAE
(Mezereum Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : RAMETA FAMILY
- Family (as per The APG System III) : THYMELAEACEAE
- Basionym : Lasiosiphon glaucus Fresen.
- Synonym(s) : Gnidia eriocephala Meisn.
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Gnidia glauca (Fresen.) Gilg
- Common name : Fish Poison Bush
- Vernacular name : Nachinaar (Tamil); Nanjinar, Nanju (Malayalam)
- Habit : Shrub
- Habitat : Evergreen, dry deciduous and shola forests
- Flower, Fruit : January-May
- Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy & Noel Sebastian
- Collection Date : 24-11-2018
- Collection Nos : HJCB-1781
- Collection Locality : Chinnakanal, Idukki district, Kerala
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Belagavi district, Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district
- Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Idukki district
- Tamil Nadu : Sirumalai Hills (Dindigul district)
- World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka and Africa
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Saldanha, C.J. (1996). Flora of Karnataka vol. 2. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Gowda, 2004 – Flora of Sringeri; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg Districts ; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Herbarium specimen from Chinnakanal, Idukki district, Kerala
- 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=Gnidia glauca. Downloaded on 9 December 2024.
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