• Family : LAURACEAE
  (Laurel Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : DALCHINI FAMILY (दालचीनी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LAURACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Alseodaphne semecarpifolia Nees
• Vernacular name : Mulakunari (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Occasional in evergreen forests on hill above 900m of the Ghats, and also in sholas
• Flower, Fruit : January-July
• Collector(s) Name : Arun Singh, Navendu Page, Raja K. Swamy, K. Sankara Rao
• Collection Date : 25-03-2016; 24-03-2016
• Collection Nos : HJCB-0666; HJCB-0644
• Collection Locality : Kolli Hills Ghat road, Namakkal distric (TN); Sholakkadu, Kolli Hills, (TN)
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Hassan district, Udupi district, Dakshina Kannada district, Uttara Kannada district,
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district
  • Tamil Nadu : Dindigul district
• Native : India
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnataka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014- Flora of South Kanara.
• 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=Alseodaphne semecarpifolia. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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