Herbarium JCB

Sarcostigma kleinii Wight & Arn.

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) : Sarcostigma kleinii Wight & Arn.
Vernacular name : Erumathali, Odal, Vattodal, Vellodal (Malayalam); Odal, Peevenna (Tamil)
Habit : Climbing shrub
Habitat : Evergreen and semi-Evergreen forests, along the ghats, also in the sacred groves
Comments / notes : Frequent in forests along Western Ghats at low elevations.
Key identification features : A large climbing shrub. Leaves alternate, oblong-lanceolate, glabrous. Flowers minute, dioecious, yellowish. Fruit a drupe, oblong, compressed, orange-yellow
Flower, Fruit : October-February
Collection Nos : KFP 4023, HFP 2714, CJS 11391
Distribution :
- Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district, Udupi district
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Maharashtra : Kolhapur district
- Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Kanyakumari district, The Nilgiri district, Tirunelveli district
World Distribution : Indo-Malesia
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
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=Sarcostigma kleinii. Downloaded on 3 April 2025.