• Family : RUBIACEAE
  (Madder Or Coffee Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : COFFEE FAMILY (कॉफी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : RUBIACEAE
• Basionym : Hedyotis pumila L.f.
• Synonym(s) : Oldenlandia crystallina Roxb.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Oldenlandia pumila (L.f.) DC.
• Common name : Panki
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Wastelands
• Flower, Fruit : September-May
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Bengaluru district, Belagavi district, Mysuru district, Tumakuru district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Odisha : Dhenkanal district
  • Tamil Nadu : Tiruvannamalai district
• World Distribution : India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Java
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2; Pullaiah et al., 2007 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 3; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; N.P.Singh, 1988- Flora of Eastern Karnataka
• 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 pumila. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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