• Family : RUBIACEAE
  (Madder Or Coffee Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : COFFEE FAMILY (कॉफी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : RUBIACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Morinda tinctoria var. tomentosa
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Morinda citrifolia L.
• Common name : Great morinda, Indian mulberry, noni, beach mulberry, cheese fruit
• Vernacular name : Maligana mara, Dhaula, Sappanga (Kannada)
• Habit : Tree
• Comments / notes : Cultivated in many places and also as an escape
• Key identification features : Flowers in terminals or axillary; Fruit is a persistent syncarpium; Seeds oblong or obovoid.
• Flower, Fruit : April-February
• Collection Nos : HFP 153, CJS 16615
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : All districts of Karnataka
  • Maharashtra : Akola district
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Flora of Bangalore district, Karnataka state; Seetharam et al., 2000 - Gulbarga; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; N.P.Singh, 1988- Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; Kamble & Pradhan, 1988. Flora of Akola District, Maharashtra. Botanical Survey of India.
• 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=Morinda tomentosa. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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