• Family : MELIACEAE
  (Mahogany Or Neem Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : NEEM FAMILY (नीम फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : MELIACEAE
• Basionym : Cedrela mahagoni L.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Swietenia mahagoni (L.) Jacq.
• Common name : West Indian Mahogany, Small-leaved Mahagony
• Vernacular name : Mahogany (Kannada); Magahani (Tamil); Mahaa-goni chettu (Telugu)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Garden plant
• Comments / notes : Planted in avenues and gardens.
• Flower, Fruit : February-December
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Aurangabad district, Nagpur district, Pune district, Sindhudurg district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Vellore district, Cuddalore district, Villipuram district
• Native : America
• World Distribution : Tropical America, also cultivated elsewhere
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; 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=Swietenia mahagoni. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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