• 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 flavida Talbot
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Evergreen forests and sacred groves
• Comments / notes : On hills above 900m and gregarious inside sholas.
• Flower, Fruit : March-July
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Alappuzha district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Sirumalai Hills (Dindigul district)
• Native : India
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2007 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 3; Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; 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 flavida. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

Botanical Description

Herbarium Specimen(s)

Field Image(s)