• Family : RUBIACEAE
  (Madder Or Coffee Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : COFFEE FAMILY (कॉफी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : RUBIACEAE
• Basionym : Dysodidendron glomeratum Gardner
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Saprosma glomeratum (Gardner) Bedd.
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Rare in the evergreen forest of Western Ghats
• Key identification features : Large shrub, parts usually foetid when crushed. Leaves subsessile, elliptic-ovate. Flowers small, terminal 1-3 together, 4 merous. Drupe globose, deep blue when ripe
• Flower, Fruit : October-June
• Collection Nos : CJS 14577
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district, Udupi district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district
• 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& Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; Sasidharan, N. 2011.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=Saprosma glomeratum. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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