- Family : EBENACEAE
- Family (As per The Plant List) : Ebenaceae
- Species : Diospyros candolleana Wight
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Diospyros candolleana Wight
- Common name : Quarrelsome Tree
- Vernacular name : Nila viruksha (San.); Jagala ganti, Kari mara (Kan.)
- Collection Nos : KFP 990, KFP 10577, KFP 1324, CJS 13260
- Endemism : Western Ghats
- Key identification features : A small tree. Leaves are elliptic or oblong, bluntly acuminate at apex, glabrous. Male flowers are sessile, close, in axillary fascicles, densely tawny-tomentose. Female flowers are larger than the male, sessile, in few-flowered axillary clusters. Fruit is globose, seated on the cup-shaped enlarged calyx. Seeds are 3-4. Endosperm ruminate.
- Habit : Tree
- Flower, Fruit : March-May
- Native : India
- Comments : Frequent in semi-evergreen forests
- Conservation Status : Vulnerable (VU)
- Distribution Locality : Chikamagalur, Dakshina Kannada, Hassan, Kodagu, Shimoga, Udupi, Uttara Kannada, Dakshina Kannada
- Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Saldanha, 1984; Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
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