• Family : MYRTACEAE
  (Myrtle Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : JAMUN FAMILY (जामुन फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : MYRTACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Syzygium malabaricum (Bedd.) Gamble
• Vernacular name : Kattuchamba (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Semi-Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Rare
• Flower, Fruit : April-October
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district
  • Karnataka : Chamarajanagar district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Alagar Hills (Madurai district)
• Endemism : Southern Western Ghats
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2007 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 3; Saldanha, C. J. 1996. Flora of Karnataka vol. 2. Flora of Karnataka; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; 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=Syzygium malabaricum. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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