• Family : DIPTEROCARPACEAE
  (Dipterocarpus Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : SAKHU FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : DIPTEROCARPACEAE
• Basionym : Balanocarpus erosus Bedd.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Hopea erosa (Bedd.) Slooten
• Vernacular name : Eeyakam, Karakong (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Rare; in mid-elevation evergreen forests. Recorded from Anamalai and Agastyamalai hill range. A small disjunct population also exists in the Kodagu district of Karnataka.
• Flower, Fruit : October-January
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Kodagu (Coorg) district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Kollam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Tirunelveli district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Southern Western Ghats
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Data Deficient (DD)
• 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=Hopea erosa. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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