• Family : RUBIACEAE
  (Madder Or Coffee Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : COFFEE FAMILY (कॉफी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : RUBIACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Hedyotis quadrilocularis Thwaites; Neanotis quadrilocularis (Thwaites) W.H.Lewis
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Neanotis tubulosa (G.Don) Mabb.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Grasslands
• Comments / notes : On hills above 1300m by perennially moist slopes, opengrasslands under partly shaded regions
• Key identification features : An erect annual herb. Leaves ovate to elliptic, membranous. Flowers in terminal or axillary subsessile capitate cymes. Capsule membranous, broader than long. Seeds pitted
• Flower, Fruit : October-December
• Collection Nos : CJS 10246, CJS 11207, CS 7461
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Belagavi district, Chikkamagaluru district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district, Mayurbhanj district
  • Tamil Nadu : Namakkal district
• Native : India, Sri Lanka
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : 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; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara.
• 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 tubulosa. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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