• Family : LAURACEAE
  (Laurel Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : DALCHINI FAMILY (दालचीनी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LAURACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Neolitsea foliosa var. caesia (Meisn.) Gamble
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Neolitsea umbrosa (Nees) Gamble
• Vernacular name : Bodeda (Telugu)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : In valleys of forests and on high plateaus
• Comments / notes : Occasional in moist deciduous forests.
• Flower, Fruit : April-December
• Collector(s) Name : Arun Singh, Raja K. Swamy & K. Sankara Rao
• Collection Date : 24/10/2014
• Collection Nos : HJCB-0096
• Collection Locality : On the way to papavinasanam, Tirumala Hills, Chittoor district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district, Vishakapatnam district, Srikakulam district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district, Kalhandi district, Rayagada district
• World Distribution : India, Malesia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; Sudhakar Reddy, C et al., 2009. Tree Wealth of Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh, India; Naidu, M.T. & O.A. Kumar 2015. Tree species diversity in the Eastern Ghats of Northern Andhra Pradesh, India. JoTT 7 (8): 7443-7459; Franklin Benjamin & G.V.S.Murthy, 2013. Flora of Sri Venkateswara National Park, Andhra Pradesh, BSI.
• 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=Neolitsea foliosa. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

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