• Family : EBENACEAE
  (Ebony Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : BISTENDU FAMILY (बिसतॆंदु फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : EBENACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Diospyros canarica Bedd.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Diospyros candolleana Wight
• Common name : Quarrelsome Tree
• Vernacular name : Jagala ganti, Kari mara (Kannada); Nila viruksha (Sanskrit); Kari, Karimaram (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Evergreen,semi-evergreen and moist deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : At elevation 50-1200m
• Flower, Fruit : February-August
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district
  • Karnataka : Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Dakshina Kannada district, Chikkamagaluru district, Shivamogga district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Kolhapur district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2; Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Navendu Page (2017). Endemic woody plants of the Western Ghats; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan district; Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnataka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Gowda, 2004 – Flora of Sringeri; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi district; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
• 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=Diospyros candolleana. Downloaded on 3 June 2025.

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