Herbarium JCB

Diospyros candolleana Wight

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 21 November 2024.