- Family : ROSACEAE
(Rose Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : GULAB FAMILY (गुलाब फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Rosaceae
- Synonym(s) : Rubus foliolosus D.Don
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Rubus niveus Thunb.
- Common name : Ceylon Raspberry, Mysore Raspberry, Mahabaleshwar Raspberry, Snowpeaks raspberry
- Vernacular name :
- Kalahinsalu, Kalianchhi (Hindi)
- Gomili (Kannada)
- Kolaalindu, Karunkanni, Vellaicheethi (Tamil)
- Karimcheechi (Malayalam)
- Habit : Climbing shrub
- Habitat : Tropical evergreen forests, Tropical moist deciduous forests, also in grasslands
- Comments / notes : On hills above 1200m by shola borders or on bare slopes. A ready colonizer.
- Key identification features : Druplets black, hoary, stone pitted
- Flower, Fruit : November-July
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district
- Karnataka : Kolar district
- Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Odisha : Kalhandi district, Ganjam district
- Tamil Nadu : Salem district, Namakkal district, Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary, Theni district
- Uttarakhand : Valley of Flowers,Dehradun district
- West Bengal : Darjeeling district
- Himachal Pradesh : Chamba district,Kinnaur district,Kullu district,Shimla district
- Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : India, Afghanistan, Himalayas, Myanmar, Thailand, China, Malaysia, Myanmar, Java, Thailand, Indo-China, Malaysia
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2
- Karuppusamy 2014
- N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
- Ravichandran V personal observation 2014 July
- Oleg P & Adam S (1984). Flowers of Himalaya. Oxford University Press: 111
- Nair, N. G (1977).Flora of Bashahr Himalayas. International Bioscience Publishers: 101
- Chowdhery, H. J. & Wadhwa, B. H (1984). Flora of Himachal Pradesh Vol. 1. Published BSI:256
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Rubus niveus. Downloaded on 14 October 2024.
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