• 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) : Lasianthus acuminatus Wight
• Vernacular name : Peenari, Moottumaram (Malayalam)
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Evergreen and shola forests
• Flower, Fruit : May-November
• Collection Nos : HFP 41, CJS 14580
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Hassan district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Kollam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Theni district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; 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=Lasianthus acuminatus. Downloaded on 3 July 2025.

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