• 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 frondosa L.
• Vernacular name : Pattam (Malayalam)
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Shola forests
• Flower, Fruit : November-August
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Palakkad district, Idukki district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Dharmapuri district, Tiruvannamalai district
• Endemism : Southern Western Ghats
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2007 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 3; 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 tomentosa. Downloaded on 23 November 2024.

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