• Family : FLACOURTIACEAE
  (Flacourtia Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : CHILLA FAMILY (चिल्ला फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : SALICACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Casearia rubescens var. gamblei N.Mukh.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Casearia rubescens Dalz.
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Evergreen and semi-Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Subcanopy evergreen tree
• Flower, Fruit : February-April
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Alappuzha district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Sindhudurg district
  • Odisha : Mayurbhanj district
  • Tamil Nadu : Madurai district, Ramanathapuram district, Tirunelveli district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; Sharma B.D, 1984 - Flora of Karnataka Analysis; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Sharma B.D, 1984 - Flora of Karnataka Analysis
• 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 rubescens. Downloaded on 23 November 2024.

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