- 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) : Ixora polyantha Wight
- Vernacular name : Kalingi, Kattuchethi (Malayalam)
- Habit : Shrub
- Habitat : Evergreen forests
- Comments / notes : Frequent as undergrowth
- Key identification features : A small shrub. Leaves ovate-lanceolate. Flowers white, in terminal corymbose cymes. Drupe 1 cm across, red when ripe
- Flower, Fruit : March-December
- Collection Nos : CJS 14233, KFP 7119
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : East Godavari district, West Godavari district
- Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district
- Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Thrissur district, Pathanamthitta district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Native : India
- Endemism : Peninsular India
- World Distribution : India
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi District; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.; Pullaiah, T., 1997. Flora of Andhra Pradesh. Vol. 3.
- 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=Ixora polyantha. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.
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