- Family : ACANTHACEAE
(Acanthus Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : ARUSA FAMILY (अडूसा फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Acanthaceae
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Blepharis maderaspatensis (L.) B.Heyne ex Roth
- Common name : Creeping Blepharis
- Vernacular name :
- Kolimukkan chedi, Kooravaalchedi (Tamil)
- Elumbotti, Hemakandi, Murikootipacha (Malayalam)
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Tropical dry deciduous forests, Scrub
- Comments / notes : Often on plains to 1400m, on slopes among rocks, in thin layer of soil
- Flower, Fruit : August-March
- Collector(s) Name : K.Sankara Rao, Raja K.Swamy, Arun Singh; K.Sankara Rao, Raja K.Swamy, Siddarth, Arun Singh
- Collection Date : 19-11-2014, 26-10-2014
- Collection Nos : HJCB-E-83; HJCB-132
- Collection Locality : Palamner forest range, Chittoor district (AP); Talakona R. F, Chittoor district (AP)
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Anantapur district, Chittoor district, Kadapa district, East Godavari district, Guntur district, Krishna district, Kurnool district, Nellore district, Prakasam district, Srikakulam district, Vishakapatnam district, Vizianagaram district, West Godavari district
- Telangana : Nalgonda district, Khammam district, Mehboobnagar district
- Karnataka : Ballari district, Kolar district, Chamarajanagar district
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Maharashtra : Akola district
- Tamil Nadu : Tamil Nadu
- Madhya Pradesh : Raisen district, Hoshangabad district
- Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
- Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
- Uttar Pradesh : Aligarh district
- Punjab : Punjab
- Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
- Native : Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Hainan, India, Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Madagascar, Malawi
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Hainan, India, Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Pakistan, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Socotra, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Uganda, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4
- J.L.Ellis, 1990- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 2
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3
- R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District
- R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District
- 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.
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Blepharis maderaspatensis. Downloaded on 7 September 2024.
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Botanical Description
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Herbarium Specimen(s)
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Line Drawings
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Field Image(s)
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Habitat
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India Distribution
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World Distribution
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