- Family : RUBIACEAE
(Madder Or Coffee Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : COFFEE FAMILY (कॉफी फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Rubiaceae
- Synonym(s) : Borreria articularis (L.f.) F.N.Williams
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Spermacoce articularis L.f.
- Common name : Shaggy buttonweed
- Vernacular name :
- Madana, Nadana, Madana grandthi, Madanak (Telugu)
- Solaganthi, Sanaghar podia, Jibkata (Oria)
- Kudalchurukki, Nattahachuri, Tharthavel (Malayalam)
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Grasslands and dry deciduous forests, also in the plains
- Comments / notes : Common weed in waste places of low elevation forests
- Key identification features : A diffuse or prostrate herb, rusty brown. Leave elliptic-oblong, subsessile. Inflorescence axillary few-flowerd clusters. Capsule hispid, obovoid. Seeds oblong
- Flower, Fruit : June-February
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district, East Godavari district, West Godavari district, Chittoor district, Kurnool district, Srikakulam district
- Telangana : Warangal district
- Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Ballari district, Vijayapura (Bijapur) district, Chikkamagaluru district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Kolar district, MST, Raichur district, Shivamogga district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Maharashtra : Akola district
- Odisha : All districts of Odisha
- Tamil Nadu : Vellore district, Tiruvannamalai district
- Madhya Pradesh : Hoshangabad district
- Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
- Punjab : Punjab
- Rajasthan : Jaisalmer district, Barmer district, Bikaner district, Jodhpur district
- World Distribution : India, China, Malaysia, Indo-China, Philippines, Tropical Africa
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- Pullaiah et al., 2007 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 3
- J.L.Ellis, 1987- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 1
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2
- R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District
- R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District
- N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Spermacoce articularis. Downloaded on 15 October 2024.
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