- 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 sulphuratum Nees
- Vernacular name : Pinga dalchini (Kannada); Kattukaruva (Malayalam)
- Habit : Tree
- Habitat : Evergreen and shola forests
- Key identification features : Evergreen trees, young branchlets and young leaves, yellow-tomentose, leaves prominently reticulate and glaucous beneath, often covered with galls. Perianth yellow-tomentose.
- Flower, Fruit : January-May
- Collection Nos : KFP 11117, KFP 11251, CJS 16408, CJS 12499, HPF 1314
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Hassan district, Chikkamagaluru district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Davanagare district
- Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Native : India
- Endemism : Western Ghats
- World Distribution : India
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere; Sasidharan, N. 2011.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 sulphuratum. Downloaded on 23 November 2024.
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