• Family : MORACEAE
  (Mulberry Or Fig Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ANJEER FAMILY (अंजीर फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : MORACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Dorstenia indica Wight
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Evergreen forests and wet rocky areas in moist deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Often on hills to 1300m, in deep shade on rotting wood, soil humus and in crevices of rocks.
• Flower, Fruit : February-August
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary, Theni district, Namakkal district
• Native : India, Sri Lanka
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. ; Ravichandran, V. 2016. Taxonomic and Phytogeographical investigation on endemic plants of Western Ghats with special reference to Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary of Tamil Nadu (Ph.D. thesis work); Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• 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=Dorstenia indica. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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