• Family : GESNERIACEAE
  (Gesneria Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : CHARELA FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : GESNERIACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Aeschynanthus planiculmis (Clarke) Gamble
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Aeschynanthus perrottetii A.DC.
• Vernacular name : Maleka soppu (Kannada)
• Habit : Undershrub
• Habitat : Evergreen and shola forests
• Flower, Fruit : September-March
• Collector(s) Name : F.M.Jarrett, C.J.Saldanha & T.P.Ramamoorthy
• Collection Nos : HFP 684, CJS 10147, CJS 11153
• Collection Locality : Davalkere (Hassan)
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• 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=Aeschynanthus perrottetii. Downloaded on 4 April 2025.

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