- Family : RUBIACEAE
- Family (As per The Plant List) : Rubiaceae
- Species : Morinda tomentosa
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Morinda citrifolia L.
- Common name : Great morinda, Indian mulberry, noni, beach mulberry, cheese fruit
- Vernacular name : Maligana mara, Dhaula, Sappanga (Kan.)
- Collection Nos : HFP 153, CJS 16615
- Key identification features : A small tree. Leaves are broadly elliptic, acute or obtuse at apex. Flowers are in leaf-opposed solitary heads, 5-merous. Fruit is syncarp, large, ovoid, white when ripe.
- Habit : Tree
- Comments : Cultivated in many places and also as an escape
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Distribution Locality : Bagalkot, Bangalore, Belgaum, Bellary, Bidar, Bijapur, Chamrajnagar, Chikamagalur, Chikkaballapur, Chitradurga, Dakshina Kannada, Davanagere, Dharwad, Gadag, Gulbarga, Hassan, Haveri, Kodagu, Kolar, Koppal, Mandya, Mysore, Raichur, Ramanagara, Shimoga, Tumkur, Udupi, Uttara Kannada, Yadgir
- Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Bangalore; Seetharam et al., 2000 - Gulbarga; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; N.P.Singh, 1988- Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
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