Hydrolea zeylanica (L.) Vahl

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🗒 Synonyms

synonym	Beloanthera oppositifolia Hassk.
synonym	Hydrolea arayatensis Blanco
synonym	Hydrolea inermis Lour.
synonym	Hydrolea javanica Bl.
synonym	Hydrolea prostrata Exell
synonym	Hydrolea sansibarica Gilg.
synonym	Hydrolea zeylanica var. ciliata Choisy
synonym	Nama zeylanica L.
synonym	Reichelia palustris Blanco
synonym	Steris aquatica Burm. fil.
synonym	Steris javanica L.

🗒 Common Names

Assamese	Indranil Indronil Leheti-bon Leheti Bon Leheti-sak
Bengali	Isa-langulia Kasschra
Hindi	Koliary
Konkani	केरित Kerit
Malayalam	Vellol ചെരുവല്ലെല Cheruvallel
Manipuri	চৰাং Charang
Marathi	केरिती Keriti पोपटी Popti
Other	Ceylon Hydrolea
Tamil	Vellel

📚 Overview

Overview

Summary

Brief

Flowering class: Dicot Habit: Herb

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Red List Category & Criteria: Least Concern ver 3.1 Year Assessed: 2010 Assessor/s: Gupta, A.K. Reviewer/s: Juffe Bignoli, D., Homsombath, K., Nophasead, L., Bounphanmy, S. & Zhuang, X. Justification: Fairly wide distribution in tropical and temperate and tropical Asia and Australasia without any know major widespread threat. It is therefore listed as Least Concern. Conservation Actions: No conservation measures in place.

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Diagnostic

Diagnostic Keys

Description

Annual herbs, suberect, rooting at nodes. Leaves alternate, 4-7 x 1.5 cm, elliptic or lanceolate, apex acute, base cuneate, membranous, young parts partly hirsute. Racemes axillary and terminal, pedicels to 0.5 cm; calyx lobes 6 x 1.5 mm, lanceolate, glandular, acute; corolla lobes 6.5 mm, ovate, obtuse, deep blue; stamens 5, filaments basally dialated; ovary 2.5 mm, oblong, many ovuled, sparsely hispid, styles 2, 3 mm, stigma globose. Capsule 5 x 2 mm, ovoid.

Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi

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Habit: Herb

G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram

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SubSpecies Varieties Races

Diagnostic Keys

Description

No Data

📚 Nomenclature and Classification

Nomenclature and Classification

Taxon Record Name

References

Type Information

No Data

📚 Natural History

Natural History

Life Cycle

Cyclicity

Flowering and fruiting: August-January

Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi

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Flowering : November - December Fruit ripen in hot weather

Wild edible plants of Assam. by Sri Brahmananda Patiri and Sri Ananta Borah, published by the Director Forest Communication, Forest Department, Assam. Curated for upload by Pranjal Mahananda.

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A swamp weed making a matted covering often found in rice field. Stems sometimes swollen.Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, sessile. Flowers deep bluish purple, solitary or in cymose inflorescence. Calyx 5-partite, glandular. Corolla rotate, bright bluish purple with a greenish white centre. Anthers versatile. Fruit a many seeded berry. Mostly found in Upper Assam

Wild edible plants of Assam. by Sri Brahmananda Patiri and Sri Ananta Borah, published by the Director Forest Communication, Forest Department, Assam. Curated for upload by Pranjal Mahananda.

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Miscellaneous Details

Notes: Aquatic

G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram

Attributions	G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
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No Data

📚 Habitat and Distribution

Habitat and Distribution

General Habitat

Habitat

Terrestrial

Freshwater

Wet sandy areas near water bodies

Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi

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Habitat and Ecology: It is commonly found growing in rice paddies, pond margins, streamsides, open forests, swampy or inundated soils. Systems: Terrestrial; Freshwater List of Habitats: 5, 5.4, 5.8

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Wet places

Dr. Chandra Barooah & Iftikher Ahmed (2014) Assam Science Technology and Environment Council.

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Distribution

Description

Global Distribution

Pantropical

Indian distribution

State - Kerala, District/s: All Districts

Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi

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Maharashtra: Ahmednagar, Nasik, Pune, Raigad, Sindhudurg, Thane Karnataka: Chikmagalur, Mysore, N. Kanara, S. Kanara Kerala: All districts Tamil Nadu: All districts

G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram

Attributions	G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
Contributors	G Renu Sanjana Julias Thilakar D. Narasimhan
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Range Description: This plant is native to temperate and tropical Asia and Australasia. Countries - Native: Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland); China (Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Yunnan); India; Indonesia (Jawa, Kalimantan, Sumatera); Lao People's Democratic Republic; Malaysia; Myanmar; Nepal; Philippines; Sri Lanka; Taiwan, Province of China; Thailand; Viet Nam

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Global Distribution

India: Assam, Meghalaya, Odisha, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh; Sri Lanka, America, Africa

Local Distribution

Bongaigaon, Barak Valley, Kamrup, Sivasagar, Darrang, Lakhimpur

Dr. Chandra Barooah & Iftikher Ahmed (2014) Assam Science Technology and Environment Council.

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Endemic Distribution

No Data

📚 Occurrence

Occurrence

No Data

📚 Demography and Conservation

Demography and Conservation

Population Biology

Trends

Population: There is no information on global population trends for this species. Population Trend: Unknown

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Risk Statement

Conservation Status

IUCN Red List Category

Least Concern

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Threats

Major Threat (s): No any known major widespread threat to this species.

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Legislation

Protection Legal Status

No Data

📚 Uses and Management

Uses and Management

Uses

System of Medicines Used In

Ayurveda

Folk medicine

Siddha

Young shoots are used as vegetable by the plain tribes

Wild edible plants of Assam. by Sri Brahmananda Patiri and Sri Ananta Borah, published by the Director Forest Communication, Forest Department, Assam. Curated for upload by Pranjal Mahananda.

Attributions	Wild edible plants of Assam. by Sri Brahmananda Patiri and Sri Ananta Borah, published by the Director Forest Communication, Forest Department, Assam. Curated for upload by Pranjal Mahananda.
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System Of Medicines Used In

Ayurveda, Folk medicine, Siddha

FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=1157

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Folklore

Management

No Data

📚 Information Listing

Information Listing

Species Resources

Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (IUCN)

Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)

Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)

References

Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. II, 1987
Gupta, A.K. 2010. Hydrolea zeylanica. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 October 2011.
Duke, J.A. 2010. Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases. Available at: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/duke/ethnobot.pl. (Accessed: 20 January).; IUCN. 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (ver. 2011.1). Available at: http://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 16 June 2011).; Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO and Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA. 2010. eFloras. Available at: http://www.efloras.org.; Newman, M., Ketphanh, S., Svengsuksa, B., Thomas, P., Sengdala, K., Lamxay, V. and Amostrong, K. 2007. A Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Lao PDR. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh.; USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. 2010. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Available at: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/index.pl.

D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=1157

Nama zeylanica L., Sp. Pl. 226.1753.
Hydrolea zeylanica (L.) Vahl, Symb. Bot. 2: 46.1791; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 133. 1883; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 884(621). 1923; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 175. 1982; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 265. 1984; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 238. 1985; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 293. 1988; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 254. 1989; Joseph, Aquatic Angiosp. Malabar 76. 1991; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 455. 1990; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 301. 1990; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 309. 1994; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 300. 1996; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 437. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 203. 1999; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 201. 2002; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 457. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 548. 2009.

http://www.iucnredlist.org/technical-documents/classification-schemes/threats-classification-scheme
http://www.iucnredlist.org/technical-documents/classification-schemes/conservation-actions-classification-scheme-ver2
http://www.iucnredlist.org/technical-documents/classification-schemes/habitats-classification-scheme-ver3
Gupta, A.K. 2010. Hydrolea zeylanica. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 October 2011.
Citation: Gupta, A.K. 2010. Hydrolea zeylanica. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 October 2011.
Duke, J.A. 2010. Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases. Available at: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/duke/ethnobot.pl. (Accessed: 20 January).; IUCN. 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (ver. 2011.1). Available at: http://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 16 June 2011).; Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO and Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA. 2010. eFloras. Available at: http://www.efloras.org.; Newman, M., Ketphanh, S., Svengsuksa, B., Thomas, P., Sengdala, K., Lamxay, V. and Amostrong, K. 2007. A Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Lao PDR. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh.; USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. 2010. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Available at: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/index.pl.

Information Listing > References

Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. II, 1987
Gupta, A.K. 2010. Hydrolea zeylanica. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 October 2011.
Duke, J.A. 2010. Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases. Available at: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/duke/ethnobot.pl. (Accessed: 20 January).; IUCN. 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (ver. 2011.1). Available at: http://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 16 June 2011).; Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO and Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA. 2010. eFloras. Available at: http://www.efloras.org.; Newman, M., Ketphanh, S., Svengsuksa, B., Thomas, P., Sengdala, K., Lamxay, V. and Amostrong, K. 2007. A Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Lao PDR. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh.; USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. 2010. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Available at: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/index.pl.
D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=1157
Nama zeylanica L., Sp. Pl. 226.1753.
Hydrolea zeylanica (L.) Vahl, Symb. Bot. 2: 46.1791; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 133. 1883; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 884(621). 1923; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 175. 1982; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 265. 1984; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 238. 1985; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 293. 1988; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 254. 1989; Joseph, Aquatic Angiosp. Malabar 76. 1991; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 455. 1990; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 301. 1990; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 309. 1994; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 300. 1996; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 437. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 203. 1999; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 201. 2002; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 457. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 548. 2009.
http://www.iucnredlist.org/technical-documents/classification-schemes/threats-classification-scheme
http://www.iucnredlist.org/technical-documents/classification-schemes/conservation-actions-classification-scheme-ver2
http://www.iucnredlist.org/technical-documents/classification-schemes/habitats-classification-scheme-ver3
Gupta, A.K. 2010. Hydrolea zeylanica. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 October 2011.
Citation: Gupta, A.K. 2010. Hydrolea zeylanica. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 October 2011.
Duke, J.A. 2010. Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases. Available at: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/duke/ethnobot.pl. (Accessed: 20 January).; IUCN. 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (ver. 2011.1). Available at: http://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 16 June 2011).; Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO and Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA. 2010. eFloras. Available at: http://www.efloras.org.; Newman, M., Ketphanh, S., Svengsuksa, B., Thomas, P., Sengdala, K., Lamxay, V. and Amostrong, K. 2007. A Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Lao PDR. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh.; USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. 2010. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Available at: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/index.pl.