- Family : RUBIACEAE
- Family (As per The Plant List) : Rubiaceae
- Species : Rubia cordifolia
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Rubia cordifolia L.
- Common name : Indian Madder
- Vernacular name : Manjista, Yojanavalli (San.); Manjit, Majit (Hin.); Manjusta, Chitravalli, Somalate, Siragatti (Kan.)
- Collection Nos : HFP 2066, CJS 12182, CS 18206
- Key identification features : A small gregarious climbing herb. Leaf whorled, dark-green, ovate-elliptic, acuminate at apex, cordate at base, nerves are prominent. Flowers are small, greenish-white in axillary amd terminal lax dichasial cymes. Fruit is a berry, globose, purplish-black.
- Habit : Climber
- Comments : Common in forests of Western Ghats
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Distribution Locality : Bangalore, Belgaum, Chikamagalur, Dakshina Kannada, Hassan, Kodagu, Kolar, Mysore, Shimoga, Tumkur, Uttara Kannada, Udupi
- Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Bangalore; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
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