• 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) : Knoxia wightiana Wall. & G.Don
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Grasslands
• Comments / notes : Common at high elevations
• Flower, Fruit : May-January
• Collector(s) Name : K.Sankara Rao, Arun Singh R & Raja K.Swamy
• Collection Date : 27/11/2014
• Collection Nos : HJCB-E-167
• Collection Locality : Sadasivakona Forest, Chittoor district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kadapa district, Chittoor district
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Hassan district, Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Idukki district
  • Tamil Nadu : Dindigul district, Yercaud Hills (Salem district)
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2007 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 3; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Arora et al., 1981 – Flora of South Kanara; Yoganarasimhan et al., 1981 – Flora of Chikmagalur District; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
• 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=Knoxia wightiana. Downloaded on 3 June 2023.

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