- Family : COMMELINACEAE
(Spiderwort Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : KANA FAMILY (काना फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Commelinaceae
- Synonym(s) : Aneilema loriforme Hassk.; Aneilema angustifolium N.E.Br.; Aneilema nudiflorum var. rigidior Benth.; Aneilema nudiflorum var. terminale (Wight) C.B.Clarke; Aneilema terminale Wight; Murdannia angustifolia (N.E.Br.) H.Hara; Murdannia malabarica var. terminalis (Wight) Santapau & S.K.Jain
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Murdannia loriformis (Hask.) Rolla Rao & Kammathy
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Grasslands
- Comments / notes : Undergrowth in forests and grasslands
- Key identification features : Herbs, glabrous or pubescent; Leaves linear- lanceolate, glabrous or hairy beneath; Flowers violet or pink or purplish-blue; Capsules ellipsoid.
- Flower, Fruit : August-December
- Collector(s) Name : Cecil J. Saldanha, B.Gurudev Singh, Shivaprakash
- Collection Date : 30/10/1981
- Collection Nos : KFP 13964
- Collection Locality : Gauremore estate, Kodagu district
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Belagavi district, Chikkamagaluru district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district, Udupi district, Dakshina Kannada district
- Kerala : Kannur district, Kollam district
- Maharashtra : Kolhapur district
- Arunachal Pradesh : Subansiri, Tirap
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Bangladesh, China, Hainan, India, Japan, Jawa, Nansei-shoto, New Guinea, Ogasawara-shoto, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Bangladesh, China, Hainan, India, Japan, Jawa, Nansei-shoto, New Guinea, Ogasawara-shoto, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- Sharma B.D, 1984 - Flora of Karnataka Analysis
- B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state – Monocotyledons
- 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.: 216-217
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Murdannia loriformis. Downloaded on 13 October 2024.
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