• Family : MELASTOMATACEAE
  (Melastoma Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ANJAN FAMILY (अंजन फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : MELASTOMATACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Evergreen and semi-Evergreen forests
• Flower, Fruit : July-August
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : West Godavari district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
• Native : India
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, China, Malay peninsula
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2007 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 3; 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=Sonerila rheedei. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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