• Family : FLACOURTIACEAE
  (Flacourtia Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : CHILLA FAMILY (चिल्ला फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : SALICACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
• Vernacular name : Karikunnan (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Common in moist deciduous and evergreen forests at an altitude of 600-1200m.
• Key identification features : Trees with pubescent branchlets; Leaves simple, alternate, stipulate; Flowers small bisexual, greenish, fascicled; Calyx long, lobed, glabrous ; Fruit is a small oblong, greenish capsule.
• Flower, Fruit : January-October
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Shivamogga district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Chikkamagaluru district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, The Nilgiri district, Tirunelveli district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Vulnerable (VU)
• Literature : Sharma B.D, 1984 - Flora of Karnataka Analysis; Udayan, Ravikumar and Udaiyan 2004. New Plant records from the state of Karnataka. J. Ind. For. May, 2004; 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=Casearia wynadensis. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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