• 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) : Tarenna nilagirica (Bedd.) Bremek.
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Flower, Fruit : March-November
• Collection Nos : HFP 36
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Hassan district, Shivamogga district, Kodagu (Coorg) district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Palakkad district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Vulnerable (VU)
• 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& Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Sasidharan, N. 2011.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=Tarenna nilagirica. Downloaded on 3 April 2025.

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