• Family : MORACEAE
  (Mulberry Or Fig Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ANJEER FAMILY (अंजीर फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : MORACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Ficus tsjahela Burm.f. (Spel. Veri.)
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Ficus tsjakela Burm.f.
• Vernacular name : Aal, Chela, Karaal, Kara (Malayalam); Vilivasuri, Boviyamara (Kannada); Kallal (Tamil)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Moist deciduous forests and deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Rare. Often on hills to 1000m. Often epiphytic and later becoming independent
• Flower, Fruit : January-May
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy
• Collection Date : 17/06/2010
• Collection Nos : FAP 39110
• Collection Locality : Kalasamudram, Anantapur district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Anantapur district, Chittoor district, Kadapa district, East Godavari district, Guntur district, Krishna district, Kurnool district, Nellore district, Prakasam district, Srikakulam district, Vishakapatnam district, Vizianagaram district, West Godavari district
  • Telangana : Nalgonda district, Khammam district, Mehboobnagar district
  • Karnataka : Kolar district, Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Shivamogga district, Tumakuru district, Mysuru district, Uttara Kannada district, Udupi district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Dindigul district, Dharmapuri district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Karur district, Krishnagiri district, Madurai district, Namakkal district, Pudukkottai district, Sivaganga district, Salem district, Tiruchirapalli district, Tiruvannamalai district, Villipuram district, Vellore district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah, T & Ali Moulali, D., 1997. Flora of Andhra Pradesh. Vol. 2; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka, Vol. 1; 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 tsjakela. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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