- Family : RUBIACEAE
(Madder Or Coffee Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : COFFEE FAMILY (कॉफी फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : RUBIACEAE
- Basionym : Ophiorrhiza prostrata D.Don
- Synonym(s) : Ophiorrhiza harrisonii G.Don; Ophiorrhiza harrisiana Heyne ex G.Don
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Ophiorrhiza rugosa var. prostrata (D.Don) Deb & Mondal
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Semi-evergreen and Evergreen forests
- Comments / notes : Common along the banks of streams in shady places
- Key identification features : Succulent
- Flower, Fruit : March-December
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : East Godavari district, West Godavari district
- Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district, Udupi district
- Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Odisha : Mayurbhanj district, Cuttack district, Dhenkanal district, Angul district
- World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Myanmar
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2007 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 3; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; 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 rugosa var. prostata. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.
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