Commelina diffusa Burm. f.

 
  • Family : COMMELINACEAE
    (Spiderwort Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : KANA FAMILY (काना फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Commelinaceae
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Commelina diffusa Burm.f.
  • Common name : Climbing Day Flower, Creeping dayflower
  • Vernacular name :
    • Gandologi (Marathi)
  • Habit : Herb
  • Habitat : Sandy soil in Tropical dry deciduous forests and scrub forests
  • Comments / notes : Often on plains to 1400m, on perennially moist places.
  • Flower, Fruit : April-November
  • Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy, Arun Singh, K. Sankar Rao; Raja K. Swamy, Arun Singh, K. Sankara Rao
  • Collection Date : 27-11-2014, 26-11-2014
  • Collection Nos : HJCB-0234; HJCB-0198
  • Collection Locality : Sadasivakona, Chittoor district (AP); Papavinasanam, Tirumal Hills, Chittoor district (AP)
  • Distribution :
    • Andhra Pradesh : Andhra Pradesh
    • Karnataka : Belagavi district
    • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
    • Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Akola district, Amravati district, Mumbai Suburban district, Mumbai-City district, Chandrapur district, Kolhapur district, Nagpur district, Nashik district, Osmanabad district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Solapur district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
    • Odisha : Frequent in damp places
    • Tamil Nadu : Throughout Tamil Nadu
    • Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
    • Sikkim : Sikkim
    • Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
    • Arunachal Pradesh : Subansiri
    • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
    • Assam : Assam
    • Nagaland : Nagaland
    • Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
    • Mizoram : Mizoram
    • Andaman and Nicobar Islands : Andaman and Nicobar Islands
    • Manipur : Manipur
    • Tripura : Tripura
  • Native : Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Bismarck Archipelago, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Central African Repu, Chad, China, Comoros, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon,
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • World Distribution : Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Bismarck Archipelago, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Central African Repu, Chad, China, Comoros, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Islands, Hainan, India, Ivory Coast, Japan, Jawa, Kenya, Korea, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, Marquesas, Mauritius, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Northern Provinces, Philippines, Pitcairn Islands, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, South China Sea, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tibet, Togo, Tonga, Tuamotu, Tubuai Islands, Uganda, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Wallis-Futuna Islands, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
  • Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
  • Literature :
    • J.L.Ellis, 1990- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 2
    • H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3
    • 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
    • B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons
    • Pullaiah, 1997. Fl. Andhra Pradesh, vol. 3
    • 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.: 213-214
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Commelina diffusa. Downloaded on 12 October 2024.

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