Very little literature is available regarding the place of origin of Samai. De Candolle (1884) does not make any reference to this crop in his "Origin of Cultivated Plants". According to Blatter and McCann (1935) "the crop is cultivated or naturalised throughout India and Ceylon; cultivated in the Tropics". Chevalier (1922) mentions that this species is cultivated only in British India and Ceylon, and perhaps also in Central China. The fact that it has a name in almost all languages of India, and that its wild ancestor P. psilopodium is found abundantly in India, Burma and the Malay Peninsula, indicates that Samal was first brought into cultivation in India.
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