• Family : ROSACEAE
  (Rose Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : GULAB FAMILY (गुलाब फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ROSACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
• Vernacular name : Kattursoa (Malayalam)
• Habit : Climbing shrub
• Habitat : Shola forests and grasslands
• Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Chikkamagaluru district, Kodagu (Coorg) district
  • Kerala : Palakkad district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : The Nilgiri district
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Flora of Bangalore district, Karnataka state; 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=Rosa leschenaultiana. Downloaded on 3 April 2025.

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