• 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 travancoricum Gamble
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Key identification features : Small evergreen trees. Young branchlets in panicles, fulvous-tomentose; leaves ovate, 3-ribbed; berries purplish-blue, ovoid to oblong.
• Flower, Fruit : January-June
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chamarajanagar district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Chikkamagaluru district, Davanagare district, Hassan district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Thiruvananthapuram district
• Native : India
• Endemism : South India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Critically Endangered (CR)
• Literature : Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Gamble, 1924. Fl. Pres. Madr. Vol. 2. pp. 1224; 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 travancoricum. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

Botanical Description