• Family : ELAEOCARPACEAE
  (Olivnut Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : RUDRAKSHA FAMILY (रुद्राक्ष फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ELAEOCARPACEAE
• Basionym : Monocera munronii Wight
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Elaeocarpus munroii Mast.
• Vernacular name : Narebikki (Tamil); Kalrudraksham, Pungari, Shirukodala (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Evergreen, Semi-evergreen and shola forests
• Comments / notes : Occasional; at high elevations (800-1800 m.), often along margins of Shola forests.
• Key identification features : Buttressed tree
• Flower, Fruit : September-April
• Collection Nos : KFP 9734, CJS 16147
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Konkan
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Kanyakumari district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Tirunelveli district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Data Deficient (DD)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnatka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 –Flora of Coorg district; 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=Elaeocarpus munronii. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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