• Family : ELAEAGNACEAE
  (Oleaster Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ELAEAGNUS FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ELAEAGNACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Elaeagnus conferta Roxb.; Elaeagnus kologa Schlecht.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Elaeagnus latifolia L.
• Vernacular name : Perunkuliri, Kulangi (Tamil); Dibaguda (Oria); Kattumunthiringa, Palga, Kayalampuvalli, Povilam, Poolanpazham (Malayalam)
• Habit : Climbing shrub
• Habitat : Semi-evergreen, evergreen, moist deciduous-and shola forests
• Comments / notes : Often on hills above 1200m, along forest borders of sholas and on thickets. E. latifolia L. is treated separately by some, but we follow Saldanha's Flora of Karnataka vol. 2 by keeping them conspecific. This is a high altitude replacement of E.indica Servettaz. Fruits are edible.
• Flower, Fruit : November-March
• Collection Nos : HFP 1231, CJS 15978, KFP 12490
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Kozhikode district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Odisha : Koraput district, Puri district
  • Tamil Nadu : Kolli Hills (Namakkal district), Shevaroy Hills (Salem district)
• World Distribution : Tropical Asia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha, C. J. (1996). Flora of Karnataka vol. 2. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; 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=Elaeagnus latifolia. Downloaded on 26 June 2024.

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