- Family : ICACINACEAE
(Icacina Or White Pear Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : GHENERA FAMILY
- Family (as per The APG System III) : ICACINACEAE
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
- Habit : Climbing shrub
- Habitat : Evergreen and semi-Evergreen forests
- Comments / notes : Rare
- Key identification features : A Climbing shrub. Leaves alternate, ovate-oblong or lanceolate acuminate at apex, dentate, glabrous. Flowers dioecious; male flowers: capitate on supra-axillary racemose peduncles; female flowers: capitate on a solitary peduncle. Ovary sessile, 1-celled; ovules 2. Fruit a drupe, elliptic-oblong, 1-seeded.
- Flower, Fruit : March-September
- Collection Nos : KFP 2308, CJS 16667
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district
- Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district
- Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district
- Endemism : Southern Western Ghats
- World Distribution : India
- Conservation Status : Vulnerable (VU)
- Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Saldanha, C. J. 1996. Flora of Karnataka vol. 2; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; 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=Miquelia dentata. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.
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