• 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) : Pavetta siphonantha Dalzell
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Frequent in forests
• Key identification features : A glabrous shrub; branchlets compressed. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate or obovate. Flowers white or pale yellow. Drupe globose, smooth
• Flower, Fruit : March-January
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Belagavi district, Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district, Udupi district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Idukki district, Thiruvananthapuram district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi District; 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=Pavetta siphonantha. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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