• Family : MELIACEAE
  (Mahogany Or Neem Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : NEEM FAMILY (नीम फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : MELIACEAE
• Basionym : Guarea binectarifera Roxb.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Dysoxylum gotadhora (Buch.-Ham.) Mabb.
• Vernacular name : Kadu gandha (Kannada); Kauti, Yerindi (Marathi); Akil, Karakil (Malayalam); Agurivagil, Cambil (Tamil)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Flower, Fruit : March-January
• Collection Nos : KFP 11777, CJS 15505
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Idukki district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Tirunelveli district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Saldanha, C. J. (1996). Flora of Karnataka vol. 2. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg district; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.
• 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=Dysoxylum binectariferum. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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