• Family : ARECACEAE
  (Palm Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : NARIYAL FAMILY (नारियल फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ARECACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Calamus travancoricus Bedd. ex Becc.
• Vernacular name : Vetra (Sanskrit); Kiribetha (Kannada); Arichooral, Cheruchooral, Kattuchooral, Vallichooral (Malayalam)
• Habit : Cane (Climbing)
• Habitat : Evergreen forests, also sacred groves
• Flower, Fruit : October-June
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Kodagu (Coorg) district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Ernakulam district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
• Native : India
• Endemism : South India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2011 - Palms of Karnataka; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Calamus travancoricus. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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