• 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 wightii Meisn.
• Vernacular name : Kadu dalchini (Kannada); Kattukaruva, Shanthamaram, Vellakodala (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Shola forests
• Key identification features : A stout tree, with very coriaceous leaves. Berries ovate-oblong, supported by a truncate cup.
• Flower, Fruit : April-June
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Kodagu (Coorg) district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Thiruvananthapuram district
• Native : India, Sri Lanka
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984; 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 wightii. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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