• 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 riparium Gamble
• Vernacular name : Aattuvayana (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Banks of streams in Evergreen forests
• Key identification features : Evergreen graceful small tree; branchlets slender, grey pubescent, flowers grey-pubescent with villous filaments; berry bright blue, shining and ovoid.
• Flower, Fruit : February-March
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Kodagu (Coorg) district, Chikkamagaluru district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Malappuram district, Ernakulam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Vulnerable (VU)
• Literature : Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Sasidharan, N. 2011.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 riparium. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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