• 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) : Wendlandia thyrsoidea (Roth) Steud.
• Vernacular name : Kadamban, Aenaa maram, Thekkili (Tamil); Kuruni, Pekanarakam, Palkuttimaram, Puvu, Vellathalachedi (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Grasslands and shola forests
• Comments / notes : On hills above 800m, on bare sun-exposed slopes or by forest border
• Flower, Fruit : December-September
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Salem district, Dindigul district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2007 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 3; Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; 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=Wendlandia thyrsoidea. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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