• 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 subsp. meziana (Wangerin) K.M.Matthew ex Ramamoorthy
• Vernacular name : Neerkurunnu, Vella-adambu (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Occasional
• Key identification features : A medium - sized tree. Leaves elliptic, acuminate at apex, glaucous beneath. Inflorescence slender, densely tomentose when young; bracts especially lower foliaceous. Calyx-lobes as long as broad, imbricate. Drupe c. 3.5 cm long.
• Flower, Fruit : January-May
• Collection Nos : KFP 6586, KFP 7833
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Hassan district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district, Udupi district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Saldanha, C. J. 1996. Flora of Karnataka vol. 2; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; 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=Mastixia arborea subsp. meziana. Downloaded on 3 April 2025.

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