• Family : FLACOURTIACEAE
  (Flacourtia Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : CHILLA FAMILY (चिल्ला फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : SALICACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Xylosma latifolium J.Hooker & Thoms.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Xylosma longifolia Clos
• Vernacular name : Katari, Dandal, Kandhara, Katpara, Sialu (Hindi)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Evergreen and semi-Evergreen forests
• Key identification features : Evergreen thorny tree . Bark grey and rough. Fruit dry berry
• Flower, Fruit : October-April
• Collector(s) Name : Arun Singh, Raja K. Swamy & Navendu Page
• Collection Date : 27/02/2016
• Collection Nos : HJCB-E-348; Barber 6267
• Collection Locality : Barbera forests, Khurda district (OD)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kadapa district
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Hassan district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district
  • Odisha : Puri district, Kalhandi district, Sundergarh district, Ganjam district, Bolangir district
  • Tamil Nadu : The Nilgiri district
• Native : India
• World Distribution : India, Thailand, Pakistan, China, Nepal, Indo-China
• Conservation Status : Endangered (EN)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; 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=Xylosma longifolium. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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