• Family : PHYTOLACCACEAE
  (Pokeweed Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : POKEBERRY FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : PHYTOLACCACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Rivina humilis L.
• Common name : Baby Pepper, Bloodberry, Coralito, Inkberry, Pigeonberry, Rouge Plant, Small Pokeweeed
• Vernacular name : Rakthanelli (Malayalam)
• Habit : Undershrub
• Habitat : Along roadsides and waste places
• Comments / notes : Occasional weed of cultivation on hills, often in plains.
• Flower, Fruit : November-August
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Tamil Nadu : Shevaroy Hills (Salem district)
• Native : Tropical America
• World Distribution : Pantropical weed
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.; Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnataka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 – Flora of Bangalore District; Rao & Razi, 1981 – The Synoptic Flora of Mysore District
• 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=Rivina humilis. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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