• Family : RUBIACEAE
  (COFFEE FAMILY OR MADDER FAMILY)
• Family (as per The Plant List) : Rubiaceae
• Species : Randia uliginosa
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Tamilnadia uliginosa (Retz.) Tirveng. & Sastre
• Vernacular name : Adaka bare (Kan.); Adavi manga (Tel.); Telkur (Ori.)
• Key identification features : A small tree. Spines are terminal at the ends of brachyblasts. Leaves are elliptic-lanceolate. Flowers are solitary, 6-8 merous. Calyx is toothed, corolla is white.
• Habit : Tree
• Flower, Fruit : April-January
• Comments : Occasional in open deciduous and scrub forests.
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Distribution Locality : Kolar district (Karnataka State); Alagar Hills (Madurai district) (Tamil Nadu State); Srikakulam district, Visakhapatnam district, West Godavari district, Kurnool district (Andhra Pradesh State); Khammam district, Nalgonda district, Mehbubnagar district (Telangana State); Similipal Hills (Mayurbhanj district), Koraput district, Kalahandi district, Malkangiri district, Angul district (Odisha State)
• World Distribution : India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2007 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 3; J.L.Ellis, 1987- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 1; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2 ; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipal, Orissa; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Naidu, M.T. & O.A. Kumar (2015). Tree species diversity in the Eastern Ghats of northern Andhra Pradesh, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 7(8): 7443-7459
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Arun Singh R., Deepak Kumar, Raja K Swamy and Navendu Page (2016). Digital Flora of Eastern Ghats. http://easternghats.ces.iisc.ernet.in/plants.php?name=Randia uliginosa. Downloaded on 28 September 2024.

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