- Family : COMMELINACEAE
(Spiderwort Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : KANA FAMILY (काना फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Commelinaceae
- Basionym : Tradescantia vaga Lour.
- Synonym(s) : Tonningia vaga (Lour.) Kuntze; Commelina hirsuta Hochst.; Cyanotis abyssinica Hook.f.; Cyanotis abyssinica A.Rich.; Cyanotis abyssinica var. glabrescens A.Rich.; Cyanotis barbata D.Don; Cyanotis bulbosa H.Lév.; Cyanotis glaberrima Hassk.; Cyanotis hirsuta Fisch., C.A.Mey. & Avé-Lall.; Cyanotis hirsuta var. glabra K.Schum.; Cyanotis mannii C.B.Clarke; Cyanotis nobilis Hassk.; Cyanotis nodiflora C.B.Clarke; Cyanotis parasitica (Hassk.) Hassk.; Tonningia barbata (D.Don) Kuntze; Tonningia glaberrima (Hassk.) Kuntze; Tonningia hirsuta (Fisch., C.A.Mey. & Avé-Lall.) Kuntze; Tonningia mannii (C.B.Clarke) Kuntze; Tonningia parasitica (Hassk.) Kuntze; Tradescantia barbata (D.Don) Spreng.; Tradescantia radicans Royle; Zygomenes abyssinica (A.Rich.) Hassk.; Zygomenes parasitica Hassk.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Cyanotis vaga (Lour.) Schult. & Schult.f.
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Moist situation
- Comments / notes : In moist places
- Key identification features : Perennial, bulbiferous, creeping herbs; Stems floccosely silky; Leaves linear or oblong-lanceolate; Flowers blue in sessile, axillary and terminal cymes; Capsules subquadrate, oblong.
- Collector(s) Name : H.O.Saxena, M.Brahmam
- Collection Date : 25/10/1979
- Collection Nos : RRL 3648
- Collection Locality : Mahendragiri way, Odisha
- Distribution :
- Odisha : Ganjam district
- 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
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Burundi, Cameroon, China, Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Gulf of Guinea Islands, Hainan, India, Ivory Coast, Jawa, Kenya, Laos, Malawi, Malaya, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Rwanda, Sudan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tib
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Burundi, Cameroon, China, Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Gulf of Guinea Islands, Hainan, India, Ivory Coast, Jawa, Kenya, Laos, Malawi, Malaya, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Rwanda, Sudan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tibet, Uganda, Vietnam, Yemen, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3
- H J, Chowdhery, et al. Materials for Flora of Arunachal Pradesh. Volume 3, Botanical Survey of India, 2009. Pg.: 215
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Cyanotis vaga. Downloaded on 7 October 2024.
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