• 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) : Cinnamomum malabatrum (Burm.f.) J.Presl
• Vernacular name : Lavanga Patra (Kannada); Priyaniyilai (Tamil); Elavarung, Illavangam, Karappa, Kuppamaram, Patta, Shanthamaram, Vayana, Vazhana, Vellakodala (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Evergreen and semi-Evergreen forests, also in the plains
• Comments / notes : often on hills in plantations along with other wild evergreen trees
• Key identification features : Small evergreen tree, with reddish-brown bark, aromatic. Leaves large, coriaceous, shining, 3-nerves from the base; berry large, globose-oblong, supported by a large thickened cup of perianth.
• Flower, Fruit : January-June
• Collector(s) Name : Arun Singh, Navendu Page, Raja K. Swamy & K. Sankara Rao
• Collection Date : 25/03/2016
• Collection Nos : HJCB-E-362
• Collection Locality : Kolli Hills Ghat road, Namakkal district (TN)
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Tamil Nadu : Kolli Hills (Namakkal district)
• Native : India
• Endemism : South India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Parthsarathy, N & Pragasan , A L 2009. Check List 5(3):542-569; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• 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=Cinnamomum malabatrum. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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