• Family : RUBIACEAE
  (Madder Or Coffee Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : COFFEE FAMILY (कॉफी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : RUBIACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Thecagonum biflorum (L.) Babu; Oldenlandia paniculata L.; Hedyotis biflora (L.) R.Br.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Oldenlandia biflora L.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Weed in the plains
• Comments / notes : In plains and along water courses of low-lying areas.
• Flower, Fruit : November-May
• Collection Nos : KFP 13278
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district, East Godavari district
  • Karnataka : Mysuru district
  • Kerala : Alappuzha district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Odisha : Koraput district, Cuttack district, Puri district
  • Tamil Nadu : Dharmapuri district
• Native : India, Sri Lanka
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2; Pullaiah et al., 2007 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 3; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District; 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=Hedyotis biflora. Downloaded on 3 April 2025.

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