• 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) : Unresolved name
• Vernacular name : Vyana, Oolagera (Kannada); Paecherumaram, Sikattai (Tamil); Aera, Cheru (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Shola forests
• Comments / notes : On hills above 900m in evergreen shola forests.
• Key identification features : Small tree
• Flower, Fruit : April-June
• Collector(s) Name : Arun Sing, Raja K. Swamy, Navendu Page & K. Sankara Rao
• Collection Date : 24-03-2016; 25-03-2016
• Collection Nos : HJCB-0643; HJCB-0662
• Collection Locality : Sholakkadu, Kollimalai, Namakkal district (TN)
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Shivamogga district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Dharmapuri district, Coimbatore district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Ramanathapuram district, Tiruchirapalli district, Tirunelveli district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Saldanha, C. J. 1996. Flora of Karnataka vol. 2; 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=Nothopegia beddomei. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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