- Family : POLYGONACEAE
(Buckwheat Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : JANGLI PALAK FAMILY (जंगली पालक फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Polygonaceae
- Basionym : Polygonum hydropiper L.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Persicaria hydropiper (L.) Delarbre
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Marshy localitites in evergreen and Tropical semi-evergreen forests
- Key identification features : Ascending herbs, up to 50 cm long, glabrous; Leaves lanceolate to oblong-Ianceolate, glabrous or sparsely hairy; stipules tubular, sparsely hairy; Flowers in axillary and terminal racemes, white; Nuts trigonous, granular, brown.
- Flower, Fruit : March- September
- Distribution :
- Kerala : Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Thrissur district, Kottayam district, Alappuzha district, Idukki district
- Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Dindigul district, The Nilgiri district
- Arunachal Pradesh : Changlang, Lohit, Siang
- Native : Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Altay, Amur, Andaman Islands, Austria, Azores, Baltic States, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, Central European Rus, China, Chita, Corse, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, Finland, France, Germ
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Pantropics
- Literature :
- Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1987). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 2.
- Gamble 1957
- G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 313
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Persicaria hydropiper. Downloaded on 7 September 2024.
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World Distribution
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