Litsea stocksii Hook.f.

 
  • Family : LAURACEAE
    (Laurel Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : DALCHINI FAMILY (दालचीनी फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : LAURACEAE
  • Synonym(s) : Tetranthera oblonga Nees var. stocksii Meisner
  • Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
  • Vernacular name : Varikkeera (Malayalam)
  • Habit : Tree
  • Habitat : Evergreen forests and on hills in Semi-evergreen forests up to 1400m
  • Flower, Fruit : July-March
  • Distribution :
    • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district
    • Kerala : Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Thiruvananthapuram district
    • Tamil Nadu : Kolli Hills (Namakkal district), Salem district, Theni district
  • Native : India
  • Endemism : Southern Western Ghats
  • World Distribution : India
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Literature : Parthsarathy, N & Pragasan , A L 2009. Check List 5(3):542-569; Gamble, 1924. Fl. Pres. Madr. Vol. 2. pp. 1236; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.; Yoganarasimhan et al., 1981 – Flora of Chikmagalur District, Karnataka
  • 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 stocksii. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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