• 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) : Neanotis subtilis (Miq.) ined.
• Habit : Herb
• Comments / notes : Very common during monsoon in the crevices of rocks, tree trunks and on grassy slopes
• Key identification features : Slender annual harb. Leaves sessile, linear-lanceolate. Flowers subsessile, white or pink. Capsule didymous; cells usually 5-seeded. Seeds compressed
• Flower, Fruit : August-December
• Collection Nos : HFP 1982, CJS 11198
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District
• 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=Neanotis foetida. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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