• Family : RUBIACEAE
  (Madder Or Coffee Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : COFFEE FAMILY (कॉफी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : RUBIACEAE
• Basionym : Griffithia rugulosa Thw.
• Synonym(s) : Oxyceros rugulosus (Thwaites) Tirveng.; Aidia rugulosa (Thw.) Swamin.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Oxyceros rugulosus (Thwaites) Tirveng.
• Habit : Liana
• Habitat : Semi-Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Occasional in forests of Western Ghats
• Key identification features : A large unarmed climber. Leaves opposite, elliptic-lanceolate. Flowers white, in leaf-opposed bracteate cymes. Fruit a berry, ovoid. Seeds few, rugose, immersed in pulp
• Flower, Fruit : February-September
• Collection Nos : HFP 1351, CJS 13359
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Davanagare district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Dakshina Kannada district, Udupi district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Kolli Hills (Namakkal district)
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2007 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 3; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; Sasidharan, N. 2011.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=Randia rugulosa. Downloaded on 23 November 2024.

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