Monochoria hastata (L.) Solms

 
  • Family : PONTEDERIACEAE
    (Pickerel-Weed Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : JALKUMBHI FAMILY (जलकुम्भी फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Pontederiaceae
  • Synonym(s) : Calcarunia hastata (L.) Raf.; Carigola hastata (L.) Raf.; Monochoria chinensis Gand.; Monochoria dilatata (Banks) Kunth; Monochoria hastifolia C.Presl; Monochoria sagittata Kunth; Pontederia dilatata Banks; Pontederia sagittata Roxb.; Pontederia sagittifolia B.Heyne ex Wall.; Pontederia vaginalis Blanco
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Pontederia hastata L.
  • Common name : Leaf Pondweed
  • Vernacular name :
    • Niru tamara (Telugu)
  • Habit : Herb
  • Habitat : Water bodies
  • Comments / notes : In margins of fresh water pools, ponds and wet rice fields
  • Key identification features : Aquatic, creeping herbs with spongy rootstocks; Leaf solitary, terminal, long petioled, sagittate or ovate, base hastate or cordate; Inflorescence raceme or sub umbel; Flowers pale-blue with greenish tinge or violet-blue dotted with red; Capsules sub-globose or oblong.
  • Flower, Fruit : April-December
  • Collector(s) Name : N.K.Dhal, B.D.Das
  • Collection Date : 22/01/1993
  • Collection Nos : RRL 7733
  • Collection Locality : Rasulgarh canal side, Odisha
  • Distribution :
    • Andhra Pradesh : Anantapur district, Chittoor district, Kadapa district, East Godavari district, Guntur district, Krishna district, Kurnool district, Nellore district, Prakasam district, Srikakulam district, Vishakapatnam district, Vizianagaram district, West Godavari district
    • Telangana : Nalgonda district, Khammam district, Mehboobnagar district
    • Karnataka : Ballari district, Kolar district, Chamarajanagar district, Bidar district, Tumakuru district, Bengaluru district, Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Udupi district
    • Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Pune district, Solapur district
    • Odisha : Throughout Odisha
    • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Dindigul district, Dharmapuri district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Karur district, Krishnagiri district, Madurai district, Namakkal district, Pudukkottai district, Sivaganga district, Salem district, Tiruchirapalli district, Tiruvannamalai district, Villipuram district, Vellore district
    • Sikkim : Sikkim
    • Arunachal Pradesh : Kameng, Tirap
    • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
    • Assam : Assam
    • Nagaland : Nagaland
    • Mizoram : Mizoram
    • Manipur : Manipur
    • Tripura : Tripura
  • Native : Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Borneo, Cambodia, China, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • World Distribution : Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Borneo, Cambodia, China, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam
  • Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
  • Literature :
    • H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3
    • 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
    • Pullaiah, 1997. Fl. Andhra Pradesh, vol. 3
    • Sharma B.D, 1984 - Flora of Karnataka Analysis
    • Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District
    • Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district
    • Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Flora of Bangalore district, Karnataka state
    • Seetharam et al., 2000 - Gulbarga
    • Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore
    • Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state
    • Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi
    • Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara.
    • H J, Chowdhery, et al. Materials for Flora of Arunachal Pradesh. Volume 3, Botanical Survey of India, 2009. Pg.: 211
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Monochoria hastata. Downloaded on 7 December 2024.

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