• Family : BORAGINACEAE
  (Forget-Me-Not Or Borage Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : LASORA FAMILY (लसोड़ा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : BORAGINACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Ehretia laevis Roxb.
• Vernacular name : Saayaviyaadhi thazhai, Paakkupattai, Narivalli (Tamil); Masonia, Guachipo, Tambalu (Oria); Chamror, Koda, Dontranga, Darar (Hindi); Paldatam, Pedda pulmera, Pogari, Tella juvvi (Telugu)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Common on hills of deciduous forests up to 1000m,along slopes and ghats.
• Flower, Fruit : July-March
• Collector(s) Name : K. Sankara Rao, Arun Singh & Raja K. Swamy; K. Sankara Rao, Arun Singh, Navendu Page & Raja K. Swamy
• Collection Date : 25-10-2014; 24-02-2016
• Collection Nos : HJCB-0101; HJCB-0478
• Collection Locality : Tirumala Hills, Titumala, Chittoor district (AP); Chandaka WLS, Khurda district (OD)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Throughout Andhra Pradesh
  • Karnataka : Belagavi district, Bidar district, Vijayapura (Bijapur) district, Chitradurga district, Kolar district, Raichur district, Shivamogga district, Tumakuru district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district, Udupi district
  • Tamil Nadu : Common
• World Distribution : Tropical and Sub-tropical regions of Old world
• Literature : Pullaiah, T & Ali Moulali, D., 1997. Flora of Andhra Pradesh. Vol. 2.; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District; N.P.Singh, 1988- Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
• 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=Ehretia laevis. Downloaded on 7 September 2024.

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