- Family : COMMELINACEAE
(Spiderwort Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : KANA FAMILY (काना फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Commelinaceae
- Synonym(s) : Aneilema simplex (Vahl) Kunth; Aneilema sinicum var. simplex (Vahl) C.B.Clarke; Commelina simplex Vahl; Aneilema cavaleriei H.Lév. & Vaniot; Aneilema longifolium Hook.; Aneilema rigidum Blatt.; Aneilema secundum Wight; Aneilema sinicum Ker Gawl.; Aneilema sinicum f. coeruleum Hochr.; Aneilema sinicum f. violaceum Hochr.; Commelina hookeri A.Dietr.; Commelina longifolia (Hook.) Spreng.; Commelina sinica (Ker Gawl.) Schult.; Murdannia sinica (Ker Gawl.) G.Brückn.; Murdannia stictosperma Brenan; Phaeneilema rigidum (Blatt.) Raizada; Phaeneilema sinicum (Ker Gawl.) G.Brückn.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Murdannia simplex (Vahl) Brenan
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Tropical moist deciduous forests, Grasslands
- Comments / notes : Not common, grows as forest undergrowth.
- Flower, Fruit : August-October
- Collector(s) Name : S.R.Ramesh, S.B.Manohar; Cecil J. Saldanha, S.R.Ramesh, N.S.Ravindra
- Collection Date : 17-05-1979, 31-07-1978
- Collection Nos : KFP 7723, KFP 2128
- Collection Locality : B.R.Hills, Mysuru; Devimane ghat, Uttara Kannada district
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Minumulur (Visakhapatnam district)
- Karnataka : Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Dakshina Kannada district, Uttara Kannada district, Mysuru district
- Kerala : Kannur district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Maharashtra : Kolhapur district, Nashik district, Pune district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Arunachal Pradesh : Kameng
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Angola, Australia, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Caprivi Strip, Central African Repu, Chad, China, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Hainan, India, Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Mada
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Angola, Australia, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Caprivi Strip, Central African Repu, Chad, China, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Hainan, India, Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Uganda, Vietnam, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka
- Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
- B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state – Monocotyledons
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
- H J, Chowdhery, et al. Materials for Flora of Arunachal Pradesh. Volume 3, Botanical Survey of India, 2009. Pg.: 217-218
- Read more :
- Permalink : http://indiaflora-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Murdannia simplex
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2026). India Flora Online. http://indiaflora-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Murdannia simplex. Downloaded on 20 January 2026.
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