• 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) : Morinda umbellata L.
• Vernacular name : Santhukkodi (Tamil); Kudaluchurukki, Ney-valli (Malayalam)
• Habit : Liana
• Habitat : Deciduous forests, sacred groves and plains
• Comments / notes : On hills to 1300m along shola borders or scandent on thickets with pendulous branchlets.
• Flower, Fruit : February-September
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district, Vishakapatnam district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Idukki district, Alappuzha district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Odisha : Mayurbhanj district, Kalhandi district
  • Tamil Nadu : Tiruvannamalai district
• World Distribution : India, Bangladesh, Malay peninsula, Sri Lanka, China, Japan, N. Australia
• 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; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• 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 umbellata. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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