• Family : CLUSIACEAE
  (Garcinia Or Kokam Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : KOKAM FAMILY (कोकम फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : CALOPHYLLACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Mesua ferrea L.
• Common name : Ceylon Iron-Wood, Indian Rose chestnut, Cobra's Saffron, Inagas tree, Ironwood, Mesua, Nagas tree, Penaga Lili
• Vernacular name : Nagasampige (Kannada); Naga kesaram, Uppachettu (Telugu); Nagesar, Nageswar (Oria); Nagakesara (Sanskrit); Churuli, Eliponku, Nagachempakam, Nagakesaram, Nagapoovu, Nangakilkuru, Nangu, Peri, Seemanagapoovu, Vayanaavu, Veluthapala (Malayalam); Nagchampa, Nagchapha, Thorachmpa (Marathi)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Evergreen forests, near streams
• Flower, Fruit : April-November
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Odisha : Ganjam district, Mayurbhanj district, Angul district, Keonjhar district, Cuttack district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Kanyakumari district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Tirunelveli district
• World Distribution : India, Andaman and Nicobar (India), Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; 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=Mesua ferrea. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

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