Adenosma indianum (Lour.) Merr.

 
  • Family : SCROPHULARIACEAE
    (Figwort Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : BRAHMI FAMILY (ब्राह्मी फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Plantaginaceae
  • Basionym : Manulea indiana Lour.
  • Synonym(s) : Adenosma capitatum (Benth.) Benth. ex Hance; Adenosma bilabiata (Roxb.) Merr.
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Adenosma indiana (Lour.) Merr.
  • Vernacular name :
    • Rasnajadi (Oria)
    • Kasithumba (Malayalam)
  • Habit : Herb
  • Habitat : Deciduous, Tropical semi-evergreen forests, grasslands
  • Comments / notes : Near water bodies
  • Flower, Fruit : June-January
  • Distribution :
    • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Udupi district
    • Kerala : Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Kottayam district, Alappuzha district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
    • Odisha : Ganjam district, Cuttack district, Sambalpur district, Khurda district
    • Madhya Pradesh : Hoshangabad district
    • Sikkim : Sikkim
    • Arunachal Pradesh : Kameng
    • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
    • Assam : Assam
    • Nagaland : Nagaland
    • Mizoram : Mizoram
    • Manipur : Manipur
    • Tripura : Tripura
  • Native : Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, China, Bhutan, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam
  • World Distribution : Indo-Malesia
  • Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
  • Literature :
    • Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4
    • H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2
    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1
    • Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
    • Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi District
    • Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
    • G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 209
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Adenosma indianum. Downloaded on 14 December 2024.

Botanical Description

Herbarium Specimen(s)

Habitat

India Distribution

World Distribution

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