- Family : COMMELINACEAE
(Spiderwort Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : KANA FAMILY (काना फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Commelinaceae
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Cyanotis arachnoidea C.B.Clarke
- Common name : Grass of the Dew
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Grasslands
- Comments / notes : Occasional, above 750m and characteristically on exposed slopes by edges of rocks
- Flower, Fruit : July-November
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district, East Godavari district, Vishakapatnam district, Krishna district, Guntur district, Srikakulam district
- Karnataka : Chikkaballapur (Nandidurg)
- Kerala : Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Odisha : Mayurbhanj district
- Tamil Nadu : Throughout Tamil Nadu
- Uttarakhand : Chikkaballapur (Nandidurg)
- Native : Cabinda, Cambodia, Cameroon, China, Bhutan, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Hainan, India, Kenya, Laos, Liberia, Myanmar, Nigeria, Sudan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Vietnam, Zaïre
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, bHUTAN, Indo-China, China, Taiwan, Tropical Africa
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3
- R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District
- H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa
- Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983
- Pullaiah, 1997. Fl. Andhra Pradesh, vol. 3. pp. 1005
- 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=Cyanotis arachnoidea. Downloaded on 7 September 2024.
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Herbarium Specimen(s)
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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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