- Family : LAURACEAE
(Laurel Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : DALCHINI FAMILY (दालचीनी फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : LAURACEAE
- Basionym : Cylicodaphne floribunda Blume
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
- Vernacular name : Pattuthali (Malayalam)
- Habit : Tree
- Habitat : Evergreen, semi-evergreen and shola forests
- Comments / notes : Frequent in Western Ghats forests from 500-1610m alt.
- Key identification features : Trees with lenticellate bark and leaves with galls. Blaze sweet to taste, smells slightly of crushed Mango leaves.
- Flower, Fruit : August-April
- Collection Nos : KFP 10665, HFP 1232, CJS 12137
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district, Hassan district, Davanagare district, Mysuru district
- Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad 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; Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnatka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg district; Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014- Flora of South Kanara; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Navendu Page (2017). Endemic woody plants of the Western Ghats.
- 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 floribunda. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.
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