• Family : BURSERACEAE
  (Bursera Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : SALAI FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : BURSERACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Canarium strictum Roxb.
• Common name : Black Dammar Tree, Black dhup, Indian white Mahogany
• Vernacular name : Kaala Dammer (Hindi); Nalla rojanamu (Telugu); Kuruppu, Kungiliam (Tamil); Halemaddu (Kannada); Karunkungiliyam (Tamil); Karutha-kungiliyam, Kungiliyium, Kunthirikkam, Pantham, Pantappayan, Thelli, Viraka, Thellippayin (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Moist Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : On hills above 1000m in evergreen and shola forests. Forms buttresses. The resin is highly medicinal and also used as frankincense
• Flower, Fruit : March-August
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Kolhapur district, Pune district, Raigad district
  • Tamil Nadu : Kolli Hills (Namakkal district), Coimbatore district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Salem district, Tirunelveli district
• Native : India
• World Distribution : India, Myanmar
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1; Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; 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=Canarium strictum. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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