- Family : OLEACEAE
- Family (As per The Plant List) : Oleaceae
- Species : Olea dioica
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Olea dioica Roxb.
- Common name : Rose Sandalwood, Indian Wild Olive
- Vernacular name : Bili sarole (Kan.)
- Collection Nos : CJS 12355, CJS 16328, CJS 16803
- Key identification features : Medium to large evergreen trees, bark is greyish-brown, rough, branchlets glabrous. Leaves are elliptic-oblong, glabrous with shortly acuminate apex, margin dentate, base rounded and secondary nerves of about 8-10 pairs. Flowers are pedicellate in panicles. Calyx is 4-lobed, tubular, corolla 4, campanulate white in colour. Drupe is obovoid.
- Habit : Tree
- Native : Indian sub-continent
- Comments : Frequent in forests. Wood is highly sweet-scented and called as 'Rose Sandalwood' used for carving, cabinet making etc.
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Distribution Locality : Bangalore, Chikamagalur, Hassan, Kodagu, Mysore, Udupi, Dakshina Kannada
- Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
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