• Family : CLUSIACEAE
  (Garcinia Or Kokam Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : KOKAM FAMILY (कोकम फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : CLUSIACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Garcinia spicata Hook.f.
• Common name : Garcinia
• Vernacular name : Kokottai (Tamil); Manjananku (Malayalam); Haldi, Jangli-ramphal, Tavir (Marathi)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Evergreen and semi-Evergreen forests
• Flower, Fruit : March-August
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Uttara Kannada district, Shivamogga district
  • Kerala : Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Coimbatore district, The Nilgiri district, Pudukkottai district, Villipuram district, Cuddalore district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnataka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.
• 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=Garcinia spicata. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

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