• Family : EBENACEAE
  (Ebony Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : BISTENDU FAMILY (बिसतॆंदु फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : EBENACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Diospyros courtallumensis Bahadur & Gaur
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Diospyros crumenata Thwaites
• Vernacular name : Thumri (Kannada); Karimaram (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Semi-evergreen and Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Common in semi-evergreen forests
• Key identification features : A large tree. Leaves elliptic or elliptic-oblong, obtuse. Male fl: usually in shortly stalked 3-7-flowered cymes. Female fl: solitary in leaf-axil, large. Fruit 3-5 cm in diam., depressed globose to slightly ovoid, glabrous or nearly so, seated on the much enlarged nearly flat calyx. Seeds 6-8; endosperm ruminate
• Flower, Fruit : January-March
• Collection Nos : Talbot 3560, CJS 13202, CJS 16025
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Thrissur district
• Native : Sri Lanka
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Endangered (EN)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnataka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district; 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=Diospyros crumenata. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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