• Family : MORACEAE
  (Mulberry Or Fig Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ANJEER FAMILY (अंजीर फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : MORACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Ficus mysorensis var. pubescens Roth in Roem. & Shult.; Ficus drupacea Thunb.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Ficus drupacea Thunb.
• Common name : Mysore Fig
• Vernacular name : Bili golimara (Kannada); Kalaal, Kozhiaalamaram (Tamil); Chela, Kallal (Malayalam); Kondamarri chettu (Telugu)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Semi-evergreen and moist deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Often on hills to 800m, also in plains
• Flower, Fruit : December-May
• Collector(s) Name : Arun Singh, Navendu Page, Raja K. Swamy & K. Sankara Rao
• Collection Date : 24/03/2016
• Collection Nos : HJCB-0652
• Collection Locality : Kolli Hills Ghat road, Namakkal district (TN)
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Belagavi district, Ballari district, Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Davanagare district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Tumakuru district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Odisha : Ganjam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Dharmapuri district, Dindigul district, Madurai district, Namakkal district, The Nilgiri district, Salem district, Theni district, Tiruvannamalai district
• Native : India
• World Distribution : India, Eastern Himalayas, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Laos
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan District; Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnataka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Rao & Razi, 1981 – Flora of Mysore District; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg District; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi District; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District; Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere District; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara ; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; 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=Ficus drupacea var. pubescens. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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