• Family : RUBIACEAE
  (Madder Or Coffee Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : COFFEE FAMILY (कॉफी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : RUBIACEAE
• Basionym : Hedyotis auricularia L.
• Synonym(s) : Exallage auricularia (L.) Bremek.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Oldenlandia auricularia (L.) K.Schum.
• Vernacular name : Nela nekare (Kannada); Nela adaviaku (Telugu); Erachiketti (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Degraded forests and in the plains
• Flower, Fruit : July-January
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district, East Godavari district, West Godavari district
  • Telangana : Khammam district
  • Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Dharwad district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Odisha : Kalhandi district, Cuttack district, Sundergarh district, Koraput district, Rayagada district
• World Distribution : India, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Myanmar
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2007 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 3; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; 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=Oldenlandia auricularia. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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