- Family : POLYGONACEAE
(Buckwheat Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : JANGLI PALAK FAMILY (जंगली पालक फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Polygonaceae
- Synonym(s) : Persicaria glabra (Willd.) M.Gomez; Polygonum glabrum var. scabrinervis Hook. f.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Persicaria glabra (Willd.) M.Gómez
- Common name : Common Marsh Buckwheat, Denseflower Knotweed
- Vernacular name :
- Nirusanne soppu, Nirukanigalu (Kannada)
- Sivappu kumbakodaali (Tamil)
- Cherumukkala, Chuvannamuthalamookku, Kozhivalan (Malayalam)
- Habit : Herb
- Comments / notes : Often in plains to 1400m. Gregarious by river or stream banks and low-lying marshy places.
- Flower, Fruit : August-April
- Collector(s) Name : Cecil J.Saldanha, K.R.Keshava Murthy
- Collection Date : 15/10/1978
- Collection Nos : KFP 3321
- Collection Locality : Near Byra
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district, Guntur district, Chittoor district, East Godavari district, Anantapur district, Srikakulam district
- Karnataka : Bellary district, Kolar district
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Maharashtra : Akola district, Thane district
- Odisha : Cuttack district, Bolangir district, Kalhandi district, Mayurbhanj district
- Tamil Nadu : All districts of Tamil Nadu
- Madhya Pradesh : Seoni district, Chhindwara district
- Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
- Arunachal Pradesh : Changlang, Kameng, Tirap
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Alabama, Argentina, Arkansas, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Bolivia, Brazil, Cayman Islands, Central African Repu, China, Colombia, Cuba, Delaware, Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, Florida, Georgia, Guatemala, Hainan, Haiti, Honduras, Illinois, India, Jamaica, Jawa, K
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Cosmopolitan
- Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
- Literature :
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3
- 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 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
- 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=Polygonum glabrum. 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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