• 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) : Rubus niveus Thunb.
• Common name : Ceylon Raspberry, Mysore Raspberry, Mahabaleshwar Raspberry, Snowpeaks raspberry
• Vernacular name : Kalahinsalu, Kalianchhi (Hindi); Gomili (Kannada); Kolaalindu, Karunkanni, Vellaicheethi (Tamil); Karimcheechi (Malayalam)
• Habit : Climbing shrub
• Habitat : Evergreen and moist deciduous forests, also in grasslands
• Comments / notes : On hills above 1200m by shola borders or on bare slopes. A ready colonizer.
• Flower, Fruit : November-July
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district
  • Karnataka : Kolar district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Odisha : Kalhandi district, Ganjam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Salem district, Namakkal district, Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary, Theni district
• Native : Indo-Himalaya
• World Distribution : India, Afghanistan, Himalayas, Myanmar, Thailand, China, Malaysia, Myanmar, Java, Thailand, Indo-China, Malaysia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2; Karuppusamy 2014; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Ravichandran V personal observation 2014 July
• 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=Rubus niveus. Downloaded on 3 April 2025.

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