• 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) : Unresolved name
• Vernacular name : Kantabadi chettu (Telugu); Lokhandi, Yenki (Marathi)
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Deciduous forests
• Flower, Fruit : April-December
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district, Chikkamagaluru district, Hassan district, Davanagare district, Dakshina Kannada district, Uttara Kannada district, Shivamogga district
  • Odisha : Gajapati district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1;Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan district; Saldanha, 1996- Flora of Karnatka State vol. 2. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi.; Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri; Manjunath et al., 2003 – Davanagere
• 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 rothiana. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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