• Family : FLACOURTIACEAE
  (Flacourtia Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : CHILLA FAMILY (चिल्ला फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ACHARIACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Hydnocarpus pendulus Manilal , T.Sabu & Sivar.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
• Vernacular name : Torathi (Kannada); Attuchankalai (Tamil); Attuchankala, Kattumarotti, Malamarotti, Malamaravetti, Pinervetty, Vilamaram (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Evergreen and semi-Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : In evergreen forests from South Karnataka to Kanyakumari; elevation 200-1600 m.
• Flower, Fruit : February-April
• Collection Nos : Barber 6273
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Ernakulam district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Kanyakumari district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Tirunelveli district, Theni district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Vulnerable (VU)
• Literature : Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnatka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; Ravichandran, V. 2016. Taxonomic and Phytogeographical investigation on endemic plants of Western Ghats with special reference to Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary of Tamil Nadu (Ph.D. thesis work); 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=Hydnocarpus alpina. Downloaded on 31 October 2025.

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