Herbarium JCB

Casearia championii Thwaites

Family : FLACOURTIACEAE
(Flacourtia Family)
Family (Hindi name) : CHILLA FAMILY (चिल्ला फैमिली)
Family (as per The APG System III) : SALICACEAE
Synonym(s) : Casearia zeylanica (Gaertn.) Thwaites; Guidonia esculenta (Roxb.) Baill.; Casearia esculenta Roxb.
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Casearia esculenta Roxb.
Common name : Wild Cowrie Fruit
Vernacular name : Kottagovai (Tamil); Bairi (Hindi)
Habit : Tree
Habitat : Semi-Evergreen forests
Comments / notes : Rare in Eastern Ghats
Flower, Fruit : February-September
Collector(s) Name : S.R Ramesh; Arun Singh R, Karuppusamy & Tilakar M; Arun Singh R, Karuppusamy & Tilakar M
Collection Date : 21-07-1978; 16-06-2014; 16-06-2014
Collection Nos : KFP 1875; HJCB-E-10; HJCB-E-05
Collection Locality : Kolcharu RF, Dakshina Kannada district (KA); Sambaru valley, Azhagar Hills, Madurai district (TN); Sambaru valley, Azhagar Hills, Madurai district (TN)
Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Seethampet forest (Srikakulam district)
- Karnataka : Belagavi district, Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district
- Maharashtra : Dhule district, Kolhapur district, Nashik district, Raigad district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district
- Tamil Nadu : Alagar Hills (Madurai district), Sirumalai Hills (Dindigul district), Coimbatore district, Kanyakumari district, The Nilgiri district, Ramanathapuram district, Thanjavur district, Tiruchirapalli district, Tirunelveli district
Native : India, Sri Lanka
World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Literature : N.P. Sing & S. Karthikeyan 2000. Flora of Maharashtra vol 1; Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; 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=Casearia championii. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.