• Family : RUBIACEAE
  (Madder Or Coffee Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : COFFEE FAMILY (कॉफी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : RUBIACEAE
• Basionym : Spermacoce ocymoides Burm.f.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Spermacoce ocymoides Burm.f.
• Vernacular name : Tharakeera (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Foot hill, scrub forests and wasteland
• Comments / notes : On hills up to 1400m , on bare slopes along the wayside in thin layer of soil
• Flower, Fruit : July-February
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : West Godavari district
  • Karnataka : Kolar district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Odisha : Ganjam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Dindigul district, Salem district, Dharmapuri district
• World Distribution : Tropical America, Africa, India to Malaysia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2007 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 3; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; 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=Borreria ocymoides. Downloaded on 3 April 2025.

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