• Family : ICACINACEAE
  (Icacina Or White Pear Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : GHENERA FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ICACINACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Gomphandra polymorpha Wight 1: 103. 1840, p.p.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Gomphandra coriacea Wight
• Vernacular name : Chottamaram, Chakkimaram, Kambilichedi (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Evergreen forests and shola forests
• Flower, Fruit : December-March
• Collection Nos : KFP 12670
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Kanyakumari district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Tirunelveli district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha, C. J. 1996. Flora of Karnataka vol. 2. Flora of Karnataka; 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=Gomphandra coriacea. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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