Herbarium JCB

Nothapodytes nimmoniana (Graham) Mabb.

Family : ICACINACEAE
(Icacina Or White Pear Family)
Family (Hindi name) : GHENERA FAMILY
Family (as per The APG System III) : ICACINACEAE
Basionym : Premna nimmoniana J.Graham
Synonym(s) : Stemonurus foetidus Wight; Mappia foetida (Wight) Miers; Mappia wightiana Miers; Nothapodytes foetida (Wight) Sleumer
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Nothapodytes nimmoniana (J. Graham) Mabb.
Vernacular name : Durvasane mara (Kannada); Amrut, Ghanera, Kargur (Marathi); Peenari, Pulippacha (Malayalam); Arali (Tamil)
Habit : Tree
Habitat : Moist deciduous, evergreen and shola forests
Comments / notes : Occasional in forests
Key identification features : A small tree. Leaves alternate, ovate-oblong, acute to acuminate at apex, rounded and asymmetrical at base, hairy beneath. Inflorescence of terminal corymbose cymes; cymes shorter than the leaves. Flowers bisexual, yellowish, with foetid smell. Fruit a drupe, oblong, purple
Flower, Fruit : June-October
Collection Nos : KFP 2294, KFP 3280, KFP 11840
Distribution :
- Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district
- Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Kanyakumari district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Tirunelveli district
World Distribution : Indo-Malesia and China
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Literature : Saldanha, C. J. 1996. Flora of Karnataka vol. 2; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi, 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=Nothapodytes nimmoniana. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.