• Family : RUBIACEAE
  (COFFEE FAMILY OR MADDER FAMILY)
• Family (as per The Plant List) : Rubiaceae
• Species : Hedyotis auricularia
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Oldenlandia auricularia (L.) K.Schum.
• Vernacular name : Nela nekare (Kan.); Nela adaviaku (Tel.)
• Key identification features : A trailing herb, branches are 4-angled, pubescent. Leaves are subsessile, ovate-lanceolate, acute. Flowers are white, shortly pedicelled, in dense, sessile or subsessile axillary cymes. Capsule is subglobose, pubescent and indehiscent.
• Habit : Herb
• Flower, Fruit : July-January
• Comments : Occasional in damp forests of northern Eastern Ghats in hilly areas.
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Distribution Locality : Araku valley (Visakhapatnam district), Maredumili Hills, Rampa Hills (East Godavari district), West Godavari district (Andhra Pradesh State); Mothugudem R.F. (Khammam district) (Telangana State); Koraput district, Cuttack district, Kalahandi district, Sundargarh district, Similipal Hills (Mayurbhanj district), Rayagada district (Odisha State)
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Malaysia
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2007 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 3; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2 ; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipal, Orissa
• 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=Hedyotis auricularia. Downloaded on 29 June 2024.

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