• Family : VERBENACEAE
  (VERBENA OR VERVAIN FAMILY)
• Family (as per The Plant List) : Lamiaceae
• Species : Premna tomentosa
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Premna tomentosa Willd.
• Common name : Wooly-leaved Fire Brand Teak, Bastard teak
• Vernacular name : Naaruvalu (Kan.); Kolakattaithekku, Malaithekku (Tam.); Kokkiti, Kampu gummadi, Nagaru, Naravu (Tel.); Subundi, Meria, Kotusumanthi, Jhandakai (Ori.)
• Habit : Tree
• Flower, Fruit : January-May
• Comments : Occasional on foothills to 1400 m in deciduous forests.
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Distribution Locality : Kolar district (Karnataka State); Guthirayan Hills (Dharmapuri district) (Tamil Nadu State); Srikakulam district, Visakhapatnam district, East Godavari district, West Godavari district, Prakasham district, Kurnool district, Kadapa district, Anantapur district, Chittoor district (Andhra Pradesh State); Ganjam district, Koraput district, Dhenkanal district, Puri district (Odisha State)
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand, China, Philippines, Indonesia
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; J.L.Ellis, 1990- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 2; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3 ; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District ; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983.; Naidu, M.T. & O.A. Kumar (2015). Tree species diversity in the Eastern Ghats of northern Andhra Pradesh, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 7(8): 7443-7459
• 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=Premna tomentosa. Downloaded on 28 September 2024.

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