• Family : RUBIACEAE
  (COFFEE FAMILY OR MADDER FAMILY)
• Family (as per The Plant List) : Rubiaceae
• Species : Hedyotis nitida
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Hedyotis neesiana Arn.
• Key identification features : A trailing herb, branches are 4-angled. Leaves are subsessile, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate. Flowers are white, subsessile in axillary fascicles. Corolla-tube is 2-3 mm long, lobes are ovate. Capsule ovoid, dehiscing at the top only.
• Habit : Herb
• Flower, Fruit : October- December
• Comments : Occasional in hills of Eastern Ghats.
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Distribution Locality : Gundlabrahmeswaram RF (Kurnool district), Talakona R.F. (Chittoor district), West Godavari district, Rampa Hills (East Godavari district) (Andhra Pradesh State); Parlakhemundi Hills (Gajapati district), Chitrakonda Hills (Malkangiri district), Sambalpur district (Odisha State)
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Malay Peninsula
• 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
• 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 nitida. Downloaded on 29 June 2024.

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