• 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) : Neonauclea purpurea (Roxb.) Merr.
• Vernacular name : Bagada, Kadamba (Telugu); Manjanirkadambu (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Stream- and river banks in Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Occasional in interior forests.
• Flower, Fruit : December-September
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Srikakulam district, Vishakapatnam district, East Godavari district, West Godavari district
  • Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district, Shivamogga district, Hassan district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district, Davanagare district
  • Kerala : Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Idukki district
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2007 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 3; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan district; Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri; Seetharam et al., 2000 - Gulbarga; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere; 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=Neonauclea purpurea. Downloaded on 3 July 2025.

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