• 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 jackianus Wight
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Evergreen forests at elevations 800-1200 m.
• Comments / notes : Undergrowth of evergreen and shola forests. Known to extend towards northern Western Ghats (Ravikumar & Udayan, 2004)
• Key identification features : Large shrubs to small trees with hirsute branchlets. Leaves hirsute, elliptic-oblong, with entire margin. Flowers white, sessile. Fruit is a drupe covered with hairs. The species can be distinguished from others by their strigose hairs throughout.
• Flower, Fruit : November-July
• Collector(s) Name : Arun.Singh.R, Imran Baig
• Collection Locality : Kabbe hills, Kodagu district
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Kodagu (Coorg) district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Southern Western Ghats
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Vulnerable (VU)
• Literature : Udayan, Ravikumar and Udaiyan 2004. New Plant records from the state of Karnataka. J. Ind. For. May, 2004.; Cal. J. Nat. Hist. 6: 512. 1846; Gamble, Fl. Madras 2: 646. 1993 (Re. Edition); Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Navendu Page (2017). Endemic woody plants of the Western Ghats
• 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 jackianus. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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