• 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 : Karukotta (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Near streams in moist deciduous forests
• Key identification features : Leaves elliptic-oblong, lateral nerves arching. Narrower, glaucous.
• Flower, Fruit : March-July
• Collector(s) Name : C.J.Saldanha
• Collection Nos : CJS 16520
• Collection Locality : Bisle Ghat (Hassan)
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Uttara Kannada district, Udupi district, Hassan district
  • Kerala : Palakkad district, Idukki district
  • Tamil Nadu : Dindigul district, Salem district, Virudhunagar district
• Native : India, Sri Lanka
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnataka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1987). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 2.
• 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 var. angustifolia. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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