• Family : ANACARDIACEAE
  (Cashew Or Mango Or Sumac Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : AAM FAMILY (आम फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ANACARDIACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Nothopegia castaneifolia (Roth) Ding Hou
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
• Vernacular name : Naicheru (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Moist deciduous and Evergreen forests.
• Comments / notes : Elevation 420-1630 m.
• Flower, Fruit : April-June
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikamagalur District, Dakshina Kannada District, Hassan District, Shimoga District, Udupi District
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Idukki district
  • Tamil Nadu : Salem district, Namakkal district, Tiruchirapalli district, Coimbatore district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district
• Native : India
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Parthsarathy, N & Pragasan , A L 2009. Check List 5(3):542-569; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; Navendu Page (2017). Endemic woody plants of the Western Ghats; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan District; Saldanha, C.J. (1996). Flora of Karnataka vol. 2. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Udupi
• 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 racemosa. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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