• Family : ELAEOCARPACEAE
  (Olivnut Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : RUDRAKSHA FAMILY (रुद्राक्ष फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ELAEOCARPACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Craspedum tectorium Lour.; Elaeocarpus robustus Roxb.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Elaeocarpus variabilis Zmarzty
• Vernacular name : Bikki, Kattukarai (Tamil); Kara, Kattakara, Kotlampazhamaram, Malamkara, Varali (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Moist deciduous and Evergreen forests
• Flower, Fruit : May-October
• Collector(s) Name : Navendu Page, Arun Sing, Raja K. Swamy & K. Sankara Rao; Saldanha
• Collection Date : 24/03/2016
• Collection Nos : HJCB-0641; CS 12998
• Collection Locality : Way to Sholakkadu, Kolli Hills Ghat road, Namakkal district (TN); Hanbal, Hassan
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Odisha : Mayurbhanj district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Tiruchirapalli district, Tirunelveli district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Sue Zmarzty (2001). Revision of Elaeocarpus (Elaeocarpaceae) Section Elaeocarpus in Southern India and Sri Lanka Kew Bull. 56 (2): 405-447, P.p. 429.Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.
• 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 variabilis. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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