• Family : BORAGINACEAE
  (Forget-Me-Not Or Borage Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : LASORA FAMILY (लसोड़ा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : BORAGINACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Cordia rothii Roem. & Schult.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Cordia sinensis Lam.
• Vernacular name : Condani (Marathi); Narivirayan (Malayalam); Chinna botuku (Telugu); Narville, Sirnaruvuli, Narivirian (Tamil); Gundi, Cadusalle (Kannada)
• Habit : Tree
• Comments / notes : Often on plains up to 800m. Dry deciduous forests
• Key identification features : Branchelets drooping. Bark blackish-grey
• Flower, Fruit : November-March
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district, Kadapa district, Anantapur district, Chittoor district
  • Karnataka : Ballari district
  • Kerala : Idukki district
  • Maharashtra : Akola district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Namakkal district, Cuddalore district, Dindigul district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Arabia, North Africa
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Sudhakar Reddy, C et al., 2009. Tree Wealth of Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh, India; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Kamble & Pradhan, 1988. Flora of Akola District, Maharashtra. Botanical Survey of India; 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=Cordia gharaf. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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