Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Gentianales > Rubiaceae > Rubia > Rubia cordifoliaRubia cordifolia (Indian Madder)Synonyms: Galium cordifolium (homotypic); Rubia cordifolia f. pratensis; Rubia cordifolia var. rotundifolia Rubia cordifolia, often known as common madder or Indian madder, is a species of flowering plant in the coffee family, Rubiaceae. It has been cultivated for a red pigment derived from roots. Common names of this plant include manjistha in Sanskrit, Marathi, Kannada and Bengali, majith in Hindi and Gujarati, བཙོད་ in Tibetan, tamaralli in Telugu, manditti in Tamil. |
| Edible [1] | May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details. | | Flower Type [1] | Hermaphrodite | | Lifespan [1] | Perennial | | Structure [1] | Vine | | Usage [1] | A red dye is obtained from the stems and the root; It is inferior to R. tinctoria, the madder plant; |  | | Height [1] | 20 feet (6 m) | | Width [1] | 9.84 feet (3 m) |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License♦ 2Aryal, A. 2008. Status and Conservation of Himalayan Serow (Capricornis sumatraensis. thar) in Annapurna Conservation Area of Nepal. BRTF Nepal; A Report Submitted to The Rufford Small Grant For Nature Conservation, UK and The Peoples Trust For Endangered Species, UK ♦ 3Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009 ♦ 4HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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