Polygonum serrulatum Lag.

 
  • Family : POLYGONACEAE
    (Buckwheat Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : JANGLI PALAK FAMILY (जंगली पालक फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Polygonaceae
  • Synonym(s) : Persicaria minor subsp. decipiens (R.Br.) Soják; Polygonum decipiens R.Br.; Polygonum minus subsp. decipiens (R.Br.) Danser
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Persicaria decipiens (R.Br.) K.L.Wilson
  • Habit : Herb
  • Habitat : In wet places in hilly areas
  • Key identification features : Perennial, ascending or erect herbs, up to 70 cm long; Leaves lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, glabrous or sparsely pubescent beneath; stipules tubular, pubescent; Flowers in tenninal slender racemes, white or pink; Nuts trigonous, brown.
  • Flower, Fruit : September-January
  • Distribution :
    • Odisha : Kalhandi district, Sambalpur district
    • Arunachal Pradesh : Subansiri
    • Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
  • Native : Albania, Algeria, Angola, Baleares, Bangladesh, Benin, Botswana, Bulgaria, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Canary Islands, Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Caprivi Strip, Central African Repu, Chad, Chatham Islands, China, Congo, Corse, Cyprus, East Aegean Islands
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • World Distribution : Albania, Algeria, Angola, Baleares, Bangladesh, Benin, Botswana, Bulgaria, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Canary Islands, Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Caprivi Strip, Central African Repu, Chad, Chatham Islands, China, Congo, Corse, Cyprus, East Aegean Islands, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Free State, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Greece, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Islands, India, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Kriti, KwaZulu-Natal, Lebanon-Syria, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madeira, Malawi, Mali, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, New Guinea, New South Wales, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Niger, Nigeria, Norfolk Islands, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Palestine, Portugal, Queensland, Rwanda, Sardegna, Senegal, Sicilia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Australia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanzania, Tasmania, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Uganda, Victoria, Western Australia, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
  • Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
  • Literature :
    • H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3
    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1.
    • G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 316
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Polygonum serrulatum. Downloaded on 14 October 2024.

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