- Family : CORNACEAE
(Evergreen Dogwood Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : CORNUS FAMILY
- Family (as per The APG System III) : CORNACEAE
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Mastixia arborea (Wight) C.B.Clarke
- Vernacular name : Gulla (Kannada); Velladambu, Rambamaram, Kattukarpooram, Kunthirikkam, Malamkumizhu, Neerkurunnu, Velluppumaram (Malayalam)
- Habit : Tree
- Habitat : Sholas and Evergreen forests
- Comments / notes : Occasional. Tree yields resinous gum that has camphoraceous smell; found at elevations 20-1610m.
- Key identification features : A medium -sized or large tree. Leaves elliptic or elliptic-oblong, shortly acuminate at apex. Inflorescence rusty tomentose when young. Fruit ellipsoid
- Flower, Fruit : January-May
- Collection Nos : BSI 80894; CS & HSS 59
- Collection Locality : Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Dharwad district, Hassan district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district
- Kerala : Kozhikode district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Native : India
- Endemism : Western Ghats
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature : Saldanha, C. J. 1996. Flora of Karnataka vol. 2; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; Sharma B.D, 1984 - Flora of Karnataka Analysis; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; 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=Mastixia arborea subsp. arborea. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.
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