• Family : ANACARDIACEAE
  (Cashew Or Mango Or Sumac Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : AAM FAMILY (आम फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ANACARDIACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Holigarna nigra Bourd.
• Vernacular name : Chera geru (Kannada); Chiri, Cherei (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Flower, Fruit : March-May
• Collection Nos : KFP 6841, KFP 8034
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Kodagu (Coorg) district, Udupi district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district
  • Tamil Nadu : Tirunelveli district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Southern Western Ghats
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha, C.J. (1996). Flora of Karnataka vol. 2. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; 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=Holigarna nigra. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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