• 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) : Mussaenda philippica A.Rich.
• Common name : White Mussaenda
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Cultivated in gardens
• Key identification features : A bushy ornamental shrub with hairy branchlets; Flowers in dense terminal pubescent cymes; the expanded sepal is white or greenish tinch; Corolla deep yellow
• Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Belagavi district, Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district, Udupi district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
• Native : Philippines, New Guinea
• World Distribution : India to Australia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; 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=Mussaenda phillipica. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

Botanical Description