• Family : OLEACEAE
  (Olive Or Jasmine Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : MOGRA FAMILY (मोगरा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : OLEACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Jasminum malabaricum Wight
• Vernacular name : Yadorolu mallige (Kannada); Mungara (Sanskrit); Jaswandi (Marathi); Kadambavalli (Malayalam)
• Habit : Climbing shrub
• Habitat : Semi-evergreen, deciduous forests and scrub jungles
• Comments / notes : On hills up to 1000m.
• Flower, Fruit : February-November
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Common on hills
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Palakkad district
  • Maharashtra : All disricts of Maharashtra
  • Odisha : Common on hills
  • Tamil Nadu : Common on hills
• Native : India
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; J.L.Ellis, 1990- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 2; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Kamble & Pradhan, 1988. Flora of Akola District, Maharashtra. Botanical Survey of India.
• 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=Jasminum malabaricum. Downloaded on 3 April 2025.

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