• 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 wightii T.Anderson
• Vernacular name : Attukaruka, Kolivala, Pulimaranga (Malayalam)
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Along stream banks in evergreen - semi-Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Rare, along low elevation riverine habitats of Kerala; elevation 50-700 m.
• Key identification features : Trees with yellow latex, up to 10 m tall
• Flower, Fruit : November-March
• Collector(s) Name : M.C Lukose
• Collection Locality : Vengoor, Ernakulam District
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district, Pathanamthitta district, Ernakulam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore 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; 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 wightii. Downloaded on 23 November 2024.

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