- Family : BUDDLEJACEAE
(Butterfly-Bush Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : BUDDLEJA FAMILY
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Scrophulariaceae
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Buddleja asiatica Lour.
- Common name : White Butterfly Bush
- Vernacular name :
- Ninda (Hindi)
- Karkkattan (Tamil)
- Ninda (Oria)
- Habit : Shrub
- Comments / notes : Degraded forests. Occasional on hills up to 1600m,along shallow river banks, ravines, shola borders.
- Key identification features : Shrubs, 1-4 m high; younger parts densely, greyish tomentose; Leaves oblolng or ovate-Ianceolate, entire or serrulate, densely woolly beneath; Flowers white in axillary or terminal, thyrsoid, cylindric spikelets; Capsules ovoid or ellipsoid, flattened.
- Flower, Fruit : October-May
- Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy, Sringeshwara, Noel Sebastian
- Collection Date : 30-10-2018
- Collection Nos : HJCB-1505
- Collection Locality : Thollayiram forest, Wayanad district, Kerala
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district
- Karnataka : Kolar district
- Kerala : Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Kollam district
- Odisha : Mayurbhanj district, Bargarh district, Keonjhar district
- Tamil Nadu : Namakkal district, Salem district
- Madhya Pradesh : Hoshangabad district
- Uttarakhand : Nainital district
- Arunachal Pradesh : Changlang, Lohit, Siang, Subansiri, Tirap
- Punjab : Punjab
- Native : Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, China, Bhutan, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Maluku, Marianas, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Pakistan, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : India, Southeast Asia, China, Pakistan, Malaysia
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2
- H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa
- N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka
- 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
- Herbarium specimen from Thollayiram forest, Wayanad district, Kerala (not scanned)
- G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 177
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Buddleja asiatica. Downloaded on 6 October 2024.
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