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Lobelia alsinoides Lam.

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Lobelia alsinoides Lam.
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🗒 Synonyms
synonymDortmanna alsinodes (Lam.) Kuntze
synonymLobelia alsinoides f. elongata (Danguy) E.Wimm.
synonymLobelia alsinoides var. hirta (E.Wimm. ex Danguy) E.Wimm.
synonymLobelia chinensis var. hirta E.Wimm. ex Danguy
synonymLobelia microcarpa C.B.Clarke
synonymLobelia stipularis Roth ex Schult.
synonymLobelia triangulata Roxb.
synonymRapuntium alsinoides (Lam.) C.Presl
🗒 Common Names
Malayalam
  • Kakkapoo
Other
  • Chickweed Lobelia
  • Kakkapoovu
📚 Overview
Overview
Summary
Brief
Red List Category & Criteria: Least Concern ver 3.1 Year Assessed: 2010 Assessor/s: Mani, S. Reviewer/s: Gunaga, S., Rasingam, L., Raghavan, R. & Lakshminarasimhan, P. Contributors: Molur, S. Justification: Lobelia alsinoides is assessed as Least Concern as the species is widely distributed, common and without any threats. Conservation Actions: No conservation actions are known to be taken for this species.
IUCN and ZOO 2011
Attributions IUCN and ZOO 2011
Contributors 
Sanjay Molur
Status UNDER_CREATION
Licenses CC_BY
References 
    Flowering class: Dicot Habit: Herb
    Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
    Attributions Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
    Contributors 
    Status UNDER_CREATION
    Licenses CC_BY
    References 
      Diagnostic Keys
      Description
      Decumbent herbs, rooting from lower nodes, stem 3-winged. Leaves 1-2 x 1-1.5 cm, ovate-orbicular, apex obtuse, crenate, petiolate; petiole 3 mm broad; upper leaves sessile, elliptic, acute, smaller. Flowers in terminal raceme; sepals 5 mm long, lanceolate; corolla blue,10 mm long, upper 3 lobes obovate, lower 2 lobes narrower. Capsule 6 mm long, glabrous; seeds trigonous, brown.
      Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
      Attributions Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
      Contributors 
      Status UNDER_CREATION
      Licenses CC_BY
      References 
        Habit: Herb
        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 
        Status UNDER_CREATION
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        References 
          No Data
          📚 Natural History
          Cyclicity
          Flowering and fruiting: August-October
          Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
          Attributions Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
          Contributors 
          Status UNDER_CREATION
          Licenses CC_BY
          References 
            Miscellaneous Details
            Notes: Plains to High Altitude, Moist Localities
            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 
            Status UNDER_CREATION
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              📚 Habitat and Distribution
              General Habitat

              Habitat

              Terrestrial
              Terrestrial
              Freshwater
              Freshwater
              Wet areas in grasslands and also in the plains
              Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
              Attributions Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
              Contributors 
              Status UNDER_CREATION
              Licenses CC_BY
              References 
                Moist places near ponds, ditches, streams, river banks
                Dr. Chandra Barooah & Iftikher Ahmed (2014) Assam Science Technology and Environment Council.
                Attributions Dr. Chandra Barooah & Iftikher Ahmed (2014) Assam Science Technology and Environment Council.
                Contributors 
                Status UNDER_CREATION
                Licenses CC_BY
                References 
                  Habitat and Ecology: It is annual herb and often very abundant in wet rice fields, roadside ditches and in other wet or inundated places (Cook 1996). Also common in disturbed moist deciduous forests and plantations (Sasidharan and Sivarajan 1996). Systems: Terrestrial; Freshwater List of Habitats: 5, 5.1, 5.7, 14, 14.3, 15, 15.7, 15.8, 15.9
                  IUCN and ZOO 2011
                  Attributions IUCN and ZOO 2011
                  Contributors 
                  Status UNDER_CREATION
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                  References 
                    Description
                    Maharashtra: Ahmednagar, Kolhapur, Nasik, Pune, Raigad, Ratnagiri, Satara, Thane Karnataka: Belgaum, Chikmagalur, Coorg, Hassan, Mysore, N. Kanara, Shimoga. 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 
                    Status UNDER_CREATION
                    Licenses CC_BY
                    References 
                      Global Distribution

                      India: Throughout; Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, South China, Sri Lanka

                      Local Distribution

                      Assam

                      Dr. Chandra Barooah & Iftikher Ahmed (2014) Assam Science Technology and Environment Council.
                      Attributions Dr. Chandra Barooah & Iftikher Ahmed (2014) Assam Science Technology and Environment Council.
                      Contributors 
                      Status UNDER_CREATION
                      Licenses CC_BY
                      References 
                        Global Distribution

                        Indo-Malesia

                        Indian distribution

                        State - Kerala, District/s: All Districts

                        Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
                        Attributions Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
                        Contributors 
                        Status UNDER_CREATION
                        Licenses CC_BY
                        References 
                          Range Description: Lobelia alsinoides is widely distributed in South and Southeast Asia. It is found in Kerala, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Assam, Goa, Meghalaya, Manipur and West Bengal (Cook 1996). Countries - Native: Bangladesh; Bhutan; Cambodia; China; India (Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Goa, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal); Indonesia; Lao People's Democratic Republic; Malaysia; Myanmar; Nepal; Philippines; Singapore; Sri Lanka; Thailand; Viet Nam
                          IUCN and ZOO 2011
                          Attributions IUCN and ZOO 2011
                          Contributors 
                          Status UNDER_CREATION
                          Licenses CC_BY
                          References 
                            No Data
                            📚 Occurrence
                            No Data
                            📚 Demography and Conservation
                            Trends
                            Population: It is very common. Population Trend: Unknown
                            IUCN and ZOO 2011
                            Attributions IUCN and ZOO 2011
                            Contributors 
                            Status UNDER_CREATION
                            Licenses CC_BY
                            References 
                              Conservation Status

                              IUCN Red List Category

                              Least Concern
                              Least Concern
                              Red List Category & Criteria: Least Concern ver 3.1 Year Assessed: 2010 Assessor/s: Mani, S. Reviewer/s: Gunaga, S., Rasingam, L., Raghavan, R. & Lakshminarasimhan, P. Contributors: Molur, S. Justification: Lobelia alsinoides is assessed as Least Concern as the species is widely distributed, common and without any threats. Conservation Actions: No conservation actions are known to be taken for this species.
                              IUCN and ZOO 2011
                              Attributions IUCN and ZOO 2011
                              Contributors 
                              Status UNDER_CREATION
                              Licenses CC_BY
                              References 
                                Threats
                                Major Threat (s): No threats have been reported for this species.
                                IUCN and ZOO 2011
                                Attributions IUCN and ZOO 2011
                                Contributors 
                                Status UNDER_CREATION
                                Licenses CC_BY
                                References 
                                  No Data
                                  📚 Uses and Management
                                  Uses

                                  System of Medicines Used In

                                  Folk medicine
                                  Folk medicine
                                  System Of Medicines Used In

                                  Folk medicine

                                  FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=2805
                                  Attributions FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=2805
                                  Contributors 
                                  Status UNDER_CREATION
                                  Licenses CC_BY
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                                    📚 Information Listing
                                    References
                                    1. Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. II, 1987
                                    1. Lobelia trigona Roxb., Fl. Ind. 2: 111. 1824; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 3: 423. 1881; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 736(518). 1921.
                                    2. Lobelia alsinoides Lam., Encycl. 3: 588. 1792; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 155. 1982; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 237. 1984; Haridasan & P.K. Mukh. in Nayar et al., Fasc. Fl. Ind. 19: 42. 1988; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 259. 1988; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 227. 1989; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 390. 1990; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 260. 1990; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 272. 1994; Joseph, Aquatic Angiosp. Malabar 98. 1991; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 198. 1995; Sasidh. et al., Bot. Stud. Med. Pl. Kerala 11,17. 1996; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 257. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Shenduruny WLS 182. 1997; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 385. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 216. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 174. 2002; Mohanan & Sivad., Fl. Agasthyamala 399. 2002; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 292. 2005; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 398. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 487. 2009; Rajeev & Diwakar, Indian J. For. 33: 626. 2010.
                                    1. http://www.iucnredlist.org/technical-documents/classification-schemes/habitats-classification-scheme-ver3
                                    2. Mani, S. 2010. Lobelia alsinoides. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 19 October 2011.
                                    3. http://www.iucnredlist.org/technical-documents/classification-schemes/threats-classification-scheme
                                    4. http://www.iucnredlist.org/technical-documents/classification-schemes/conservation-actions-classification-scheme-ver2
                                    6. Citation: Mani, S. 2010. Lobelia alsinoides. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 19 October 2011.
                                    7. Cook, C.D.K. 1996. Aquatic and Wetland Plants of India. Oxford University Press, Oxford. IUCN. 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (ver. 2011.1). Available at:http://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 16 June 2011).; Lammers, T. G. 1992. New combinations for Asian Campanulaceae. Bot. Bull. Academia Sinica 33: 285-287.; Sasidharan, N. and Sivarajan, V.V. 1996. Flowering plants of Thrissur forest Western Ghats, Kerala, India. Scientific Publishers.; Setalaphruk, C. and Price, L. L. 2007. Children's traditional ecological knowledge of wild food resources: a case study in a rural village in Northeast Thailand. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 3: 33.
                                    1. 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=2805
                                    Information Listing > References
                                    1. Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. II, 1987
                                    2. Lobelia trigona Roxb., Fl. Ind. 2: 111. 1824; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 3: 423. 1881; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 736(518). 1921.
                                    3. Lobelia alsinoides Lam., Encycl. 3: 588. 1792; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 155. 1982; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 237. 1984; Haridasan & P.K. Mukh. in Nayar et al., Fasc. Fl. Ind. 19: 42. 1988; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 259. 1988; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 227. 1989; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 390. 1990; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 260. 1990; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 272. 1994; Joseph, Aquatic Angiosp. Malabar 98. 1991; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 198. 1995; Sasidh. et al., Bot. Stud. Med. Pl. Kerala 11,17. 1996; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 257. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Shenduruny WLS 182. 1997; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 385. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 216. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 174. 2002; Mohanan & Sivad., Fl. Agasthyamala 399. 2002; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 292. 2005; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 398. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 487. 2009; Rajeev & Diwakar, Indian J. For. 33: 626. 2010.
                                    4. http://www.iucnredlist.org/technical-documents/classification-schemes/habitats-classification-scheme-ver3
                                    5. Mani, S. 2010. Lobelia alsinoides. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 19 October 2011.
                                    6. http://www.iucnredlist.org/technical-documents/classification-schemes/threats-classification-scheme
                                    7. http://www.iucnredlist.org/technical-documents/classification-schemes/conservation-actions-classification-scheme-ver2
                                    9. Citation: Mani, S. 2010. Lobelia alsinoides. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 19 October 2011.
                                    10. Cook, C.D.K. 1996. Aquatic and Wetland Plants of India. Oxford University Press, Oxford. IUCN. 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (ver. 2011.1). Available at:http://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 16 June 2011).; Lammers, T. G. 1992. New combinations for Asian Campanulaceae. Bot. Bull. Academia Sinica 33: 285-287.; Sasidharan, N. and Sivarajan, V.V. 1996. Flowering plants of Thrissur forest Western Ghats, Kerala, India. Scientific Publishers.; Setalaphruk, C. and Price, L. L. 2007. Children's traditional ecological knowledge of wild food resources: a case study in a rural village in Northeast Thailand. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 3: 33.
                                    13. 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=2805
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                                    📚 Meta data
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                                    🐾 Taxonomy
                                    RootRoot
                                    KingdomPlantae
                                    PhylumTracheophyta
                                    ClassMagnoliopsida
                                    OrderAsterales
                                    FamilyCampanulaceae
                                    GenusLobelia
                                    SpeciesLobelia alsinoides Lam.
                                    📊 Temporal Distribution
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