- Family : LYTHRACEAE
(Loose-Strife Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : MEHNDI FAMILY (मेंहंदी फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Lythraceae
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Ammannia multiflora Roxb.
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Marshy areas in Tropical dry deciduous forests
- Comments / notes : In plains and moist places
- Flower, Fruit : August-January
- Collector(s) Name : R.Raghavendra Rao; Raja K. Swamy
- Collection Date : 25-09-1970, 02-01-2016
- Collection Nos : R.R.Rao 951; HJCB-0432
- Collection Locality : Talkad river bank, Mysore district; Batrepalli, Nigidi forest, Anantapur 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 : Bengaluru district, Belagavi district, Dharwad district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Raichur district, Tumakuru district, Uttara Kannada district
- Kerala : Wayanad district, Idukki district, Kollam district
- Maharashtra : Akola district
- Odisha : Ganjam district
- Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Dindigul district, Dharmapuri district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Karur district, Krishnagiri district, Madurai district, Namakkal district, Pudukkottai district, Sivaganga district, Salem district, Tiruchirapalli district, Tiruvannamalai district, Villipuram district, Vellore district
- West Bengal : Burdwan, Howrah, Murshidabad
- Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
- Punjab : Punjab
- Native : Tropical Africa, Asia, Australia
- World Distribution : Africa, West Asia, Himalayas, China, Japan, India to Malaysia, Australia
- Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
- Literature :
- Saldanha, C. J. 1996. Flora of Karnataka vol. 2
- Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 – Flora of Bangalore
- Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg
- N.P.Singh, 1988- Flora of Eastern Karnataka
- Pullaiah et al., 2007 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 3
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2
- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1.
- Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
- Kamble & Pradhan, 1988. Flora of Akola District, Maharashtra. Botanical Survey of India.
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Ammannia multiflora. 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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India Distribution
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World Distribution
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