Garcinia travancorica Bedd.

 
  • 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 travancorica Bedd.
  • Vernacular name : Malampongu (Malayalam)
  • Habit : Tree
  • Habitat : Evergreen forests, shola forests
  • Comments / notes : Restricted to Agastyamalai and Megamalai hills in the southern Western Ghats; elevation 1000-1400 m.
  • Flower, Fruit : May-September
  • Distribution :
    • Kerala : Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
    • Tamil Nadu : Kanyakumari district, Tirunelveli district, Theni district
  • Endemism : Southern Western Ghats
  • Conservation Status : Vulnerable (VU)
  • Literature : Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; Ravichandran, V. 2016. Taxonomic and Phytogeographical investigation on endemic plants of Western Ghats with special reference to Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary of Tamil Nadu (Ph.D. thesis work); Navendu Page (2017). Endemic woody plants of the Western Ghats.
  • 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 travancorica. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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