• Family : RUBIACEAE
  (Madder Or Coffee Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : COFFEE FAMILY (कॉफी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : RUBIACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Pavetta breviflora var. ciliata Gamble ex Bremek.; Pavetta breviflora var. subcoriacea Gamble
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Pavetta breviflora DC.
• Vernacular name : Papidi chettu (Telugu); Malampichi (Malayalam)
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Hills of dry forests, evergreen and shola forests
• Comments / notes : Occasional
• Flower, Fruit : March-December
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy, Arun Singh, Navendu Page & K. Sankara Rao
• Collection Date : 25/03/2016
• Collection Nos : HJCB-0665
• Collection Locality : Kolli Hills Ghat road, Namakkal district (TN)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Anantapur district
  • Karnataka : Mysuru district, Bengaluru district, Hassan district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Kollam district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Sirumalai Hills (Dindigul district)
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• 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; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 – Flora of Bangalore District; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District
• 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=Pavetta breviflora. Downloaded on 3 July 2025.

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