- Family : SCROPHULARIACEAE
(Figwort Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : BRAHMI FAMILY (ब्राह्मी फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Plantaginaceae
- Synonym(s) : Gratiola juncea Roxb.; Morgania juncea (Roxb.) Spreng.; Cyrtandra aristata Blanco; Didymocarpus aristatus (Blanco) Fern.-Vill.; Ilyogeton sphaerocarpus (Hassk.) Hassk.; Pyxidaria sphaerocarpa (Hassk.) Kuntze; Vandellia sphaerocarpa (Hassk.) Benth.; Vriesea sphaerocarpa Hassk.; Dopatrium aristatum (Blanco) Hassk.; Dopatrium japonicum Franch. & Sav.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Dopatrium junceum (Roxb.) Buch.-Ham. ex Benth.
- Common name : Rushlike Dopatrium
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Marshy places, near ponds, rice fields and riverbeds
- Comments / notes : On hills from 1400m. Locally abundant in perennially moist places, especially by banks of post monsoon puddles.
- Flower, Fruit : July-March
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Nellore district, Chittoor district, CGP, West Godavari district
- Kerala : Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Alappuzha district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district
- Odisha : Ganjam district, Kalhandi district
- Tamil Nadu : Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Tiruchirapalli district
- Arunachal Pradesh : Siang, Subansiri
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Afghanistan, Andaman Islands, Bangladesh, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, China, Bhutan, Ghana, India, Ivory Coast, Japan, Jawa, Kenya, Korea, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, Mauritania, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Norther
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Eastern tropics
- 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
- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1.
- 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.
- G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 210
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Dopatrium junceum. 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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India Distribution
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World Distribution
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