- 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) : Psychotria dalzellii Hook.f.
- Habit : Shrub
- Habitat : Evergreen forests
- Comments / notes : Fairly common in forests as undergrowth
- Key identification features : A large glabrous shrub. Leaves obovate-oblong or oblanceolate, obtuse at apex, coriaceous. Gradually narrowed into the petiole. Flowers white, sessile, terminal cymes. Drupe globose, black, crowned with calyx-tube
- Flower, Fruit : March-November
- Collection Nos : HFP 133, HFP 845
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district
- Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district
- Native : India
- Endemism : Western Ghats
- World Distribution : India
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South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=Psychotria dalzellii. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.
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