• Family : SAXIFRAGACEAE
  (Saxifrage Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : SAXIFRAGE FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : VAHLIACEAE
• Basionym : Heuchera dichotoma Murr.
• Synonym(s) : Vahlia oldenlandioides Roxb.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Vahlia dichotoma (Murray) Kuntze
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Grasslands
• Comments / notes : On plains in moist gravelly soils, locally abundant by river banks.
• Flower, Fruit : October-December
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district, Nellore district
  • Kerala : Palakkad district
  • Odisha : Puri district (Beach)
• Native : India
• World Distribution : India, Africa, Madagascar, Vietnam, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2007 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 3; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2; Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• 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=Vahlia dichotoma. Downloaded on 5 May 2024.

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