• Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
  (Spurge Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : AMLA FAMILY (आँवला फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : PHYLLANTHACEAE
• Basionym : Stilago bunius L.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Antidesma bunius (L.) Spreng.
• Common name : Chinese laurel, Salamander tree
• Vernacular name : Nayi kode (Kannada); Anep (Telugu); Aryaporiyan, Cherutali, Mayilkombi, Neelathali, Noolithali (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Evergreen forests, also in sacred groves
• Comments / notes : Occasional in Hill forests
• Flower, Fruit : April-August
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district, East Godavari district
  • Karnataka : Belagavi district, Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Odisha : Mayurbhanj district, Ganjam district
• World Distribution : India incl. Andaman & Nicobar, Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, SE.Asia, South China, New Guinea, Java
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; Sudhakar Reddy, C et al., 2009. Tree Wealth of Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh, India; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Saldanha, C.J. (1996). Flora of Karnataka vol. 2. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi.
• 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=Antidesma bunius. Downloaded on 31 October 2025.

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