- 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) : Ophiorrhiza mungos L.
- Common name : Indian snake root, Mongoose plant
- Vernacular name : Sarhati (Hindi); Patalagaruda (Kannada); Sarpakshi (Sanskrit); Avilpori, Chembajarinjil, Pera-aratha (Malayalam)
- Habit : Undershrub
- Habitat : Semi-Evergreen forests and in the plains
- Flower, Fruit : January-November
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : East Godavari district
- Kerala : Kasaragod district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Alappuzha district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Tamil Nadu : Alagar Hills (Madurai district), Sirumalai Hills (Dindigul district), Tirunelveli district
- Native : India
- World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Sumatra, Java
- 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; Ravichandran V, personal observation 2009 Nov.
- 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=Ophiorrhiza mungos. Downloaded on 2 May 2024.
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