• 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) : Gymnosporia buchananii Loes.
• Vernacular name : Elimullu (Malayalam)
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Dry deciduous forests and scrub jungles
• Comments / notes : On higher hills above 850m in shola borders and in thickets.
• Flower, Fruit : December-June
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Idukki district
  • Tamil Nadu : Salem district, Dharmapuri district, Coimbatore district, Madurai district, Vellore district, Tiruvannamalai district, The Nilgiri district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Literature : Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; 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=Maytenus ovata. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

Field Image(s)