• Family : RUBIACEAE
  (Madder Or Coffee Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : COFFEE FAMILY (कॉफी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : RUBIACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Canthium rheedei DC.
• Vernacular name : Edalimaram (Malayalam)
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Evergreen forests and sacred groves
• Comments / notes : On hills above 1200m in sholas.
• Flower, Fruit : March-October
• Collector(s) Name : Navendu Page, Arun Singh, Raja K. Swamy & K. Sankara Rao
• Collection Date : 24/03/2016
• Collection Nos : HJCB-0648
• Collection Locality : Way to Sholakkadu, Kolli Hills, Namakal district (TN)
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Alappuzha district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Kolli Hills (Namakkal district)
• Native : India
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : 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=Canthium rheedei. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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