• Family : CELASTRACEAE
  (Staff-Tree Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : MALKANGANI FAMILY (मालकांगनी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : CELASTRACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Glyptopetalum lawsonii Gamble
• Vernacular name : Kodikurunthu (Tamil)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Moist deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : On hills above 500m.
• Flower, Fruit : July-August
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Sirumal Hills (Dindigul district), Coimbatore district, The Nilgiri district, Ramanathapuram district, Tirunelveli district, Dharmapuri district, Salem district, Tiruchirapalli district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Vulnerable (VU)
• Literature : Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. ; 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=Glyptopetalum lawsonii. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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