• 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
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Key identification features : Small tree
• Flower, Fruit : December-January
• Collection Nos : KFP 6910, HFP 215
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district,Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district
  • Kerala : Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district, Wayanad district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Madurai district
• World Distribution : Indo-Malesia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha, C. J. 1996. Flora of Karnataka vol. 2; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; 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=Microtropis wallichiana. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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