- Family : LAURACEAE
(LAUREL FAMILY)
- Family (as per The Plant List) : Lauraceae
- Species : Neolitsea cassia
- Basionym : Neolitsea cassia L.
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Cinnamomum cassia (L.) J.Presl
- Vernacular name : Belori, Bilinisangi (Kan.); Mori (Tel.)
- Collection Nos : HJCB-E-38
- Collector(s) Name : Arun Singh R., A.N.Sringeswara & Imran Baig
- Collection Date : 09/04/14
- Collection Locality : Polur Ghat, Javadhu Hills, Tiruvannamalai district, Tamil Nadu State
- Habitat : Mixed forest
- Key identification features : An evergreen tree. Branchlets are slender and glabrous. Bark is thick, smooth and grey; Leaves are trinerved, subcoriaceous, glaucous beneath, dark green above, silky; Flowers are pale-yellow, perianth lobes silky, pubescent. Fruit is a berry.
- Habit : Tree
- Flower, Fruit : April-May
- Comments : Occasional in forests in Valleys.
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Distribution Locality : Visakhapatnam district (Andhra Pradesh State); Mahendragiri Hills (Ganjam district) (Odisha State)
- World Distribution : India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Java, Sumatra
- Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; Naidu, M.T, O.A. Kumar & M. Venkaiah (2015). Vascular plant diversity in the sacred grove of Modapalli in Viskhapatnam District of Andhra Pradesh, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 7(10): 7683-7690
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Arun Singh R., Deepak Kumar, Raja K Swamy and Navendu Page (2016). Digital Flora of Eastern Ghats. http://easternghats.ces.iisc.ernet.in/plants.php?name=Neolitsea cassia. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.
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