Herbarium JCB

Psychotria truncata Wall.

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 truncata Wall.
Habit : Tree
Habitat : Evergreen and shola forests
Comments / notes : Occasional in forests of Western Ghats
Key identification features : A large shrub, glabrous. Leaves broadly obovate or lanceolate, rounded and very shortly apiculate at apex. Flowers shortly pedicelled, white. Drupe 1 cm across, globose
Flower, Fruit : January-May
Collection Nos : HFP 200, HFP 2605
Distribution :
- Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district, Udupi district
- Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Idukki district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram 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& Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; Sasidharan, N. 2011.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 truncata. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.