• 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 verticillatus (Lour.) Merr.
• Habit : Shrub
• Comments / notes : Rare in shola forests to 1100m.
• Flower, Fruit : September-November
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Minumuluru (Vishakapatnam district)
  • Odisha : Ganjam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Kolli Hills (Namakkal district), Shevaroy Hills (Salem district)
• Native : India
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2007 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 3; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2; Ravikumar & Balachandran-2014, Journal of Threatened Taxa 6(8): 6108–6121; Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Redlist of Threatened plants 1997.
• 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 truncatus. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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