• 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) : Unresolved name
• Vernacular name : Puthangkolli (Tamil); Poothamkolli, Vayila, Vayila vazha, Vayanavu (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Evergreen forests, also in sacred groves of the plains
• Comments / notes : At elevations 490-1200 m.
• Flower, Fruit : December-June
• Collection Nos : KFP 727, KFP 11572
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, The Nilgiri district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnatka State vol.1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Sasidharan, N. 2011.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=Poeciloneuron indicum. Downloaded on 3 April 2025.

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