• Family : RUBIACEAE
  (Madder Or Coffee Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : COFFEE FAMILY (कॉफी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : RUBIACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Psilanthus wightianus (Wight & Arn.) J. Leroy
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Psilanthus wightianus (Wall. ex Wight & Arn.) J.-F.Leroy
• Vernacular name : Vaedan, Uppulaathi (Tamil); Vadamally (Malayalam)
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Semi-evergreen and deciduous forests, and scrub jungles
• Comments / notes : Occasional on plains of scrub jungles to 400m
• Flower, Fruit : January-July
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Nellore district
  • Kerala : Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kollam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Salem district, Dindigul district, Pudukkottai district, Sirumalai Hills (Dindigul district), Coimbatore district, Tirunelveli district
• Native : India, Sri Lanka
• World Distribution : Eastern Himalayas, India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2007 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 3; 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=Coffea wightiana. Downloaded on 23 November 2024.

Botanical Description