- Family : ALISMATACEAE
(Water-Plantain Or Arrowhead Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : ALISMA FAMILY
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Alismataceae
- Basionym : Sagittaria obtusifolia L.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Limnophyton obtusifolium (L.) Miq.
- Common name : Arrow Head
- Vernacular name :
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : In margins of tanks. Often on hills from 350m, in stagnant ponds and marshes
- Comments / notes : Latex milky, sparse, drying sticky.
- Flower, Fruit : December-August
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Kadapa district, Anantapur district, Nellore district, Prakasam district
- Telangana : Adilabad district, Nizamabad district
- Karnataka : Kolar district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Tumakuru district
- Kerala : Thrissur district, Ernakulam district, Alappuzha district, Kollam district
- Maharashtra : Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Chandrapur district, Nagpur district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Thane district, Yavatmal district
- Odisha : Cuttack district, Ganjam district, Kalhandi district
- Tamil Nadu : Dharmapuri district
- Native : Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Caprivi Strip, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, India, Jawa, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesser Sunda Islands, Liberia, Mad
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Caprivi Strip, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, India, Jawa, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesser Sunda Islands, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Pakistan, Senegal, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Vietnam, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
- Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
- Literature :
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4
- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1.
- N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka
- B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons
- Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983
- Pullaiah, 1997. Fl. Andhra Pradesh, vol. 3
- Nayar, T. S., et al, 2006. Flowering plants of Kerala, A hand book
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Limnophyton obtusifolium. 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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