• Family : LAURACEAE
  (Laurel Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : DALCHINI FAMILY (दालचीनी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LAURACEAE
• Basionym : Tetranthera coriaceae B.Heyne ex Nees
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
• Vernacular name : Kanayooram, Maravettithali, Pannithali, Vettithali (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Semi-Evergreen forests and sacred groves
• Flower, Fruit : October-January
• Collection Nos : Barber 2243 (K), Talbot 60 (K)
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
• Native : India
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014- Flora of South Kanara; 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=Litsea coriacea. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

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