• Family : RUTACEAE
• Family (As per The Plant List) : Rutaceae
• Species : Naringi crenulata
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Naringi crenulata (Roxb.) Nicolson (Unresolved name)
• Common name : Elephant Nettle
• Vernacular name : Nayi belala, Nayi bullal, Kadubilvapatre (Kan.)
• Collection Nos : KFP 449, KFP 1960, KFP 2215
• Key identification features : A small evergreen shrub. Bark is thin, light brown, corky and stiff thorns are present on the stem. Leaves are alternate, pinnately compound, with 3-7 leaflets, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, obtuse at apex, crenate. Inflorescence is a cyme to about 2.5 cm long. Berry is globose, bluish-black.
• Habit : Tree
• Native : India, Sri Lanka, South-east Asia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Distribution Locality : Bangalore, Chikamagalur, Dakshina Kannada, Gulbarga, Hassan, Mysore, Tumkur, Udupi
• Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Saldanha, 1996; Seetharam et al., 2000 - Gulbarga; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi

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