- Family : CARYOPHYLLACEAE
(Pink Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : BUGYALE FAMILY
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Caryophyllaceae
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Polycarpon prostratum (Forssk.) Asch. & Schweinf.
- Vernacular name :
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Paddy fields and river banks in the plains
- Comments / notes : Occasional
- Flower, Fruit : August-May
- Collector(s) Name : R. Raghavendra Rao
- Collection Date : 28/05/1970
- Collection Nos : R.R. Rao 698
- Collection Locality : Talkad forest, Mysore district (KA)
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Araku Hills (Vishakapatnam district), Chittoor district
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Maharashtra : Frequent in open area
- Odisha : Koraput district, Kendrapara district, Cuttack district, Ganjam district
- Tamil Nadu : All districts of Tamil Nadu
- Madhya Pradesh : Hoshangabad district
- Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
- Arunachal Pradesh : Arunachal Pradesh
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
- Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Botswana, Burkina, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, China, Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Hainan, India, Ivory Coast, Laos, Lebanon-Syria, Liberia, Libya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Moza
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Paleotropics
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1
- Franklin Benjamin & G.V.S.Murthy, 2013. Flora of Sri Venkateswara National Park, Andhra Pradesh, BSI
- Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1
- 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=Polycarpon prostratum. Downloaded on 7 October 2024.
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