• 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 21 November 2024.

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