Mussaenda glabrata (Hook.f.) Hutch. ex Gamble

 
  • 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 IPNI) : Mussaenda glabrata (Hook.f.) Hutch. ex Gamble
  • Vernacular name :
    • Vellila, Vattuthali (Malayalam)
  • Habit : Shrub
  • Habitat : Tropical moist deciduous forests, Tropical semi-evergreen forests
  • Comments / notes : Frequent in forests of Western Ghats.
  • Key identification features : Climbing shrub; branchlets nearly glabrous except at nodes. Leaves broadly elliptic, shortly acuminate at apex. Flowers orange-red, in terminal and axillary cymes. Berry subglobose or obovoid, nearly glabrous
  • Flower, Fruit : May-November
  • Distribution :
    • Karnataka : Belagavi district, Uttara Kannada district, Chikkamagaluru district, Hassan district, Udupi district, Bengaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district, Mysuru district
    • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Palakkad district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
    • Tamil Nadu : KMTR (Tirunelveli district)
    • Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
  • Endemism : Western Ghats
  • World Distribution : Bangladesh, India
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Literature :
    • Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore
    • 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=Mussaenda glabrata. Downloaded on 6 December 2024.

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