• 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) : Ophiorrhiza hirsutula Wight ex Hook.f.
• Habit : Undershrub
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Flower, Fruit : January-November
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district, East Godavari district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India, Myanmar
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2007 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 3; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• 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=Ophiorrhiza hirsutula. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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