Hemigraphis latebrosa (Roth) Nees

 
  • Family : ACANTHACEAE
    (Acanthus Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : ARUSA FAMILY (अडूसा फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Acanthaceae
  • Synonym(s) : Hemigraphis pavala (Roxb.) Kurz; Lepidagathis pavala (Roxb.) Nees; Ruellia pavala Roxb.; Crateola parviflora Raf.; Crossandra diffusa Buch.-Ham. ex Wall.; Dipteracanthus parviflorus Nees; Eranthemum parviflorum R.Br. ex Spreng.; Hemigraphis crenata (Benth. ex Hohen.) Bremek.; Hemigraphis ebracteata (Dalzell) C.B.Clarke; Hemigraphis elegans Nees; Hemigraphis elegans var. crenata (Benth. ex Hohen.) C.B.Clarke; Hemigraphis latebrosa var. beddomei C.B.Clarke; Hemigraphis latebrosa var. ebracteata (Dalzell) T.Cooke; Hemigraphis latebrosa var. heyneana Bremek.; Hemigraphis latebrosa var. incana Gamble; Hemigraphis latebrosa var. rupestris C.B.Clarke; Hemigraphis rupestris T.Anderson; Hygrophila pavala Kurz; Justicia parviflora Ortega; Ruellia crenata Benth. ex Hohen.; Ruellia ebracteata Dalzell; Ruellia ebracteolata T.Anderson; Ruellia elegans Hook.; Ruellia erecta Buch.-Ham. ex Wall.; Ruellia fasciculata Wall.; Ruellia latebrosa B.Heyne ex Roth; Ruellia obscura Russell ex Wall.; Ruellia parviflora Nees; Ruellia rupestris T.Anderson; Ruellia satpoorensis Wawra.
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Strobilanthes pavala (Roxb.) J.R.I.Wood
  • Habit : Shrub
  • Habitat : Tropical moist deciduous forests
  • Comments / notes : Rare
  • Key identification features : Stems tetragonous. Flowers bluish in axillary and terminal, shortly pedunculate, spicate heads
  • Flower, Fruit : September-April
  • Distribution :
    • Andhra Pradesh : Nallamalai Hills (Kurnool district), Borra caves (Visakhapatnam district), Marripakala (East Godavari district), Anantagiri hills (Vishakapatnam district), Chittoor district
    • Telangana : Mannanur Forest Range (Mehbubnagar district), Warangal district
    • Karnataka : Davanagare district, Hassan district, Tumakuru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Udupi district, Ballari district
    • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Kasaragod district, Thrissur district, Idukki district
    • Maharashtra : Akola district
    • Odisha : Common
    • Gujarat : All districts except Kachchh district
  • Native : India
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • Endemism : Peninsular India
  • World Distribution : India
  • 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
    • H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa
    • Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
    • Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan District
    • Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District
    • Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere District
    • Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 – Flora of South Kanara
    • Kamble & Pradhan, 1988. Flora of Akola District, Maharashtra. Botanical Survey of India.
    • N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka
    • Sharma B.D, 1984 - Flora of Karnataka Analysis
    • Pullaiah, T & Ali Moulali, D., 1997. Flora of Andhra Pradesh. Vol. 2.
    • Shah G. L. (1978). Flora of Gujarat State Part 1. University Press Sardar Patel University: 542
    • N.P. Singh, P. Lakshminarasimhan, S. Karthikeyan & P. V. Prasanna (2001). Flora of Maharashtra state, Dicotyledones. Vol. 2. pp.632. Botanical survey of India, Govt. Of India.
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2025). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Hemigraphis latebrosa. Downloaded on 2 July 2025.

Botanical Description

Herbarium Specimen(s)

Line Drawings

Field Image(s)

Habitat

India Distribution

World Distribution

Creative Commons License
India Flora Online by Herbarium JCB is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.