• Family : Rubiaceae
  (Madder Or Coffee Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : COFFEE FAMILY (कॉफी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : Rubiaceae
• Synonym(s) : Rubia munjista Roxb.; Rubia cordifolia var. munjista
• Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Rubia manjith Roxb.
• Common name : Manjith
• Vernacular name : Manjit, Manjistha, Majith (Bengali); Manjith (Hindi); Chitravalli, Manjista (Kannada); Poont (Malayalam); Manjishtha, Munjistha (Mizo); Manditta, Manjitti (Tamil); Mandastic, Tamravalli (Telugu); Majitho, Tiro Laharaa (Nepali)
• Habit : Climbing herb
• Habitat : Scrambling on rocks and shrubs at forest margins, along footpaths, hedgerows in subtropical and warm broad-leaved forest zones, 1150 - 2300 m. altitude
• Comments / notes : A valuable dye, manjith, is obtained from roots and stems. Roots used medicinally
• Key identification features : A herbaceous climbing perennial, with 4-angled stem and branches with unequal stalked leaves in whorls of 4 and with usually reddish-brown flowers in small clusters aggregated together into a large branched cluster with small leafy bracts
• Flower, Fruit : June-November
• Distribution :
  • Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
  • Sikkim : West Sikkim (Geyzing) district,East Sikkim (Gangtok) district
  • West Bengal : Darjeeling district
• Native : Bhutan, China, East Himalaya, India, Nepal, Qinghai, Tibet, West Himalaya
• Exotic/Native : Native
• World Distribution : Himalaya to North-West India and South Central China
• Literature : Uniyal B.P., Sharma J.R., Choudhery U., Singh D.K. (2007). Flowering Plants of Uttarakhand: A Checklist. Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh: 146; GRIERSON A.J.C. & LONG D.G. (1983). FLORA OF BHUTAN INCLUDING A RECORD OF PLANTS FROM SIKKIM Vol. 2: Part 2. ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, EDINBURGH: 824; Oleg P & Adam S (1984). Flowers of Himalaya. Oxford University Press: 176
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Navendu Page, Deepak Kumar (2020). Pan India Bouquets. http://flora-peninsula-indica.ces.iisc.ac.in/pan/plants.php?name=Rubia manjith. Downloaded on 27 September 2023.

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