• Family : GENTIANACEAE
  (Gentian Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : BHUIN NEEM FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : GENTIANACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Exacum lawii C.B.Clarke
• Vernacular name : Manali (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Moist deciduous forests
• Flower, Fruit : September-November
• Collection Nos : CS 539
• Collection Locality : Tansa, Maharashtra
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Belagavi district, Chikkamagaluru district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Pathanamthitta district
  • Tamil Nadu : Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary, Theni district
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Sharma B.D, 1984 - Flora of Karnataka Analysis; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Ravichandran, V. 2016. Taxonomic and Phytogeographical investigation on endemic plants of Western Ghats with special reference to Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary of Tamil Nadu (Ph.D. thesis work)
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Exacum lawii. Downloaded on 31 October 2025.

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