• Family : SCROPHULARIACEAE
  (Figwort Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : BRAHMI FAMILY (ब्राह्मी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : Linderniaceae
• Synonym(s) : Cyrtandra personata Blanco; Bonnaya aristatoserrata Hayata; Bonnaya brachiata Link & Otto; Bonnaya bracteoides Blatt. & Hallb.; Bonnaya personata (Blanco) Hassk.; Bonnaya pusilla Benth.; Bonnaya quinqueloba Blatt. & Hallb.; Bonnaya serrata A.Dietr.; Ilysanthes aristatoserrata (Hayata) Sasaki; Ilysanthes ciliata (Colsm.) Kuntze; Ilysanthes serrata (Roxb.) Urb.; Lindernia brachiata (Link & Otto) Biswas; Lindernia bracteoides (Blatt. & Hallb.) Mukerjee; Lindernia ciliata (Colsm.) Pennell; Lindernia serrata (Roxb.) F.Muell. ;Vandellia brachiata (Link & Otto) Haines; Vandellia ciliata (Colsm.) T.Yamaz.; Gratiola ciliata Colsm.; Gratiola grandiflora Willd. ex G.Don; Gratiola serrata Roxb.
• Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Bonnaya ciliata (Colsm.) Spreng.
• Vernacular name :
  • Khedkura (Oria)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Moist places in Tropical moist deciduous forests and Tropical dry deciduous forests and also in plains
• Comments / notes : Often grows well on banks of streams and in marshes up to 750m. More prominent and mixed with grasses after rains.
• Flower, Fruit : June-November
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K.Swamy, Arun Singh, K. Sankara Rao, Siddharthan
• Collection Date : 26/10/2014
• Collection Nos : HJCB-0119; HJCB-0125
• Collection Locality : Talakona, Chittoor district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district, Kadapa district, Kurnool district, Nellore district, Vishakapatnam district
  • Karnataka : Hassan district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Maharashtra : Maharashtra
  • Odisha : Odisha
  • Tamil Nadu : Dindigul district
  • Madhya Pradesh : Hoshangabad district
  • Arunachal Pradesh : Subansiri
  • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
  • Assam : Assam
  • Nagaland : Nagaland
  • Delhi : Delhi
  • Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
  • Punjab : Punjab
  • Mizoram : Mizoram
  • Andaman and Nicobar Islands : Andaman Islands
  • Manipur : Manipur
  • Tripura : Tripura
• Native : Andaman Islands, Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam
• Exotic/Native : Native
• World Distribution : Andaman Islands, Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam, Florida
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• 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. 2
  • 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
  • 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.
  • P. Singh, K. Karthigeyan, P. Lakshminarasimhan, S.S. Dash. 2015, Endemic vascular plants of India
  • G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 214
• Read more :
  • Plants of the World Online
  • World Flora Online
  • Global Plants on JSTOR
• Permalink : http://indiaflora-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Lindernia ciliata
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2025). India Flora Online. http://indiaflora-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Lindernia ciliata. Downloaded on 31 October 2025.

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