- Family : HYDROCHARITACEAE
(Frog's-Bit Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : JHANGI FAMILY (झांगी फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Hydrocharitaceae
- Basionym : Serpicula verticillata L.f.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Hydrilla verticillata (L.f.) Royle
- Common name : Hydrilla
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Stagnant ponds
- Comments / notes : Submerged herb; often on plains in ponds, marshes and tanks.
- Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : West Godavari district
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Amravati district, Mumbai Suburban district, Kolhapur district, Nagpur district, Pune district, Raigad district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district, Yavatmal district
- Odisha : Common in Odisha
- Tamil Nadu : Dharmapuri district
- Punjab : Punjab
- Rajasthan : Jaisalmer district, Barmer district, Bikaner district, Jodhpur district
- Native : Afghanistan, Altay, Amur, Australia, Baltic States, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bhutan, Borneo, Burundi, Cambodia, China, Hainan, India, Iran, Irkutsk, Japan, Jawa, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Khabarovsk, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Maluku, Manchuri
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Old World tropics
- Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
- Literature :
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3
- R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District
- R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District
- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1.
- B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons
- 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.
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Hydrilla verticillata. Downloaded on 6 October 2024.
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