• Family : COMMELINACEAE
  (Spiderwort Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : KANA FAMILY (काना फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : COMMELINACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Commelina subulata Roth
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Weed of rice fields and other marshes, On hills above 1000m.
• Flower, Fruit : August-September
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy
• Collection Date : 02-01-2016
• Collection Nos : HJCB-0428
• Collection Locality : Batrepalli, Nigidi forests, Anantapur district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Telangana : Ranga Reddy district
  • Karnataka : Ballari district
  • Maharashtra : Kolhapur district, Pune district
  • 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
• Native : Africa
• World Distribution : India, Tropical Africa, Arabian peninsula
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. ; 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; Pullaiah, 1997. Fl. Andhra Pradesh, vol. 3. pp. 1004.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Commelina subulata. Downloaded on 5 May 2024.

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