• Family : RUBIACEAE
  (Madder Or Coffee Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : COFFEE FAMILY (कॉफी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : RUBIACEAE
• Basionym : Plectronia travencorica Bedd.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Canthium travancoricum (Bedd.) Hook.f.
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Rocky areas of semi-evergreen and moist deciduous forests, also in sacred groves
• Flower, Fruit : March-August
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Alappuzha district, Kollam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Theni district, Coimbatore district, Kanyakumari district, Tirunelveli district, Virudhunagar district
• Endemism : Southern Western Ghats
• Literature : Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Ravichandran, V. 2016. Taxonomic and Phytogeographical investigation on endemic plants of Western Ghats with special reference to Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary of Tamil Nadu (Ph.D. thesis work)
• 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 travancoricum. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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