• Family : LAURACEAE
  (Laurel Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : DALCHINI FAMILY (दालचीनी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LAURACEAE
• Basionym : Cylicodaphne wightiana Nees
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Litsea wightiana (Nees) Hook.f.
• Vernacular name : Pattuthali, Manjakudala (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Shola forests
• Comments / notes : Rare in Eastern Ghats.
• Key identification features : Flowers faintly fragrant.
• Flower, Fruit : October-July
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Ittikaldurga State Forest (Kolar district)
  • Kerala : Palakkad district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary, Theni district, The Nilgiri district, Tirunelveli district
• Endemism : Southern Western Ghats
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka, Vol. 2; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Ravichandran V personal observation.
• 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 wightiana. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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