- Family : PONTEDERIACEAE
(Pickerel-Weed Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : JALKUMBHI FAMILY (जलकुम्भी फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Pontederiaceae
- Synonym(s) : Gomphima vaginalis (Burm.f.) Raf.; Monochoria loureiroi Kunth; Monochoria pauciflora (Blume) Kunth; Monochoria vaginalis var. pauciflora (Blume) Merr.; Pontederia cordata Lour.; Pontederia loureiroana Schult. & Schult.f.; Pontederia pauciflora Blume; Pontederia vaginata Royle
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Pontederia vaginalis Burm.f.
- Common name : Pickerel Weed
- Vernacular name :
- Valukkaikeerai (Tamil)
- Indivareh (Sanskrit)
- Mirmira (Oria)
- Niru kanchanam (Telugu)
- Kakkapole, Karimkovalum, Kolachempu (Malayalam)
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Paddy fields and wet lowlands
- Comments / notes : In margins of fresh water pools, ponds and wet rice fields, on hills to about 1500m.
- Flower, Fruit : May-November
- Collector(s) Name : Cecil J. Saldanha
- Collection Date : 15/10/1961
- Collection Nos : CS 7604
- Collection Locality : Calicut
- Distribution :
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Maharashtra : Bhandara district, Chandrapur district, Kolhapur district, Nagpur district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district, Yavatmal district
- Odisha : Throughout Odisha
- Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
- Arunachal Pradesh : Kameng, Subansiri
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Punjab : Punjab
- Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands : Andaman Islands
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Afghanistan, Andaman Islands, Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Borneo, Cambodia, China, Hainan, India, Inner Mongolia, Japan, Jawa, Korea, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, Pakistan, Philippines, Sulawesi,
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Afghanistan, Andaman Islands, Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Borneo, Cambodia, China, Hainan, India, Inner Mongolia, Japan, Jawa, Korea, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, Pakistan, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam
- 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
- H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa
- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1.
- N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka
- 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.
- H J, Chowdhery, et al. Materials for Flora of Arunachal Pradesh. Volume 3, Botanical Survey of India, 2009. Pg.: 211-212
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Monochoria vaginalis. Downloaded on 13 December 2024.
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