• Family : HYDROCHARITACEAE
  (Frog's-Bit Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : JHANGI FAMILY (झांगी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : HYDROCHARITACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Vallisneria spiralis L.
• Vernacular name : Sheval, Saivala (Marathi)
• Habit : Herb
• Comments / notes : Tufted submerged herb
• Flower, Fruit : October-April
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Srikakulam district
  • Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Akola district, Amravati district, Bhandara district, Kolhapur district, Nagpur district, Pune district, Raigad district, Satara district, Thane district, Yavatmal district
• World Distribution : Cosmopolitan
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. ; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons.
• 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=Vallisneria spiralis. Downloaded on 1 October 2023.

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