✿Droseraceae · Drosera
Kandulessa / Shield Sundew
Drosera indica
HerboutdoorMedicinal
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Maharashtra, Telangana, Karnataka & more
- Flowering
- August-March
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Drosera indica
- Genus
- Drosera
- Family
- Droseraceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Habitat
- Wet areas in moist deciduous forests, also in the plains
- Native to
- Tropical Africa, Tropical Asia, Australia
- Distribution
- India, Tropical Africa, Madagascar, Sri Lanka, Japan, New Guinea, Australia
- Found in India
- Maharashtra, Telangana, Karnataka, Goa, Kerala, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal
- Flowering & fruiting
- August-March
- Conservation status
- Least Concern (LC)
Leaf characters
- Leaf shape
- LinearrecordedVery long and narrow with roughly parallel sides.“Leaves are narrowly linear, up to 10 cm [4 in] long with 1–1.5 cm [0.4–0.6 in] pedicels.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Kandulessa itself; the rest are typical of the Droseraceae family.
Local Names
- Hindi
- Kandulessa
- Kannada
- hula hidaka, krimi naashini
- Malayalam
- അക്കരപ്പുത, Drosera indica
- Marathi
- गवती दवबिंदू Gawati davbindu, गवती दवबिंदू
About Kandulessa
Shield Sundew (Drosera indica) is a herb in the Droseraceae family. In India it has been recorded in Maharashtra, Telangana, Karnataka and 6 other states. It grows in wet areas in moist deciduous forests, also in the plains. Flowering and fruiting run from August to March.
Botanical family
Droseraceae
Sundew Family
Kandulessa belongs to the Droseraceae family.
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