• Family : RUBIACEAE
  (Madder Or Coffee Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : COFFEE FAMILY (कॉफी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : RUBIACEAE
• Basionym : Borreria exilis L.O. Williams
• Synonym(s) : Spermacoce mauritiana Osea
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Spermacoce exilis (L.O.Williams) C.D.Adams ex W.C.Burger & C.M.Taylo
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Moist and dry deciduous forests and waste places
• Comments / notes : Common in moist shady habitats
• Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Udupi district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Alappuzha district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district,Thiruvananthapuram district
• Native : Tropical America
• World Distribution : Tropical America, introduced elsewhere
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; 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=Spermacoce mauritiana. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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