- 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& Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; Sasidharan, N. 2011.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 14 November 2024.
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