• 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 occidentale (Bourd.) D.N.Gandhi
• Vernacular name : Attuchamba, Karinjara (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Evergreen forests along banks of rivers
• Comments / notes : Small bushy tree, always near water.
• Key identification features : Flowers large, articulated with a pedicel. Fruit greenish-pink, globose.
• Flower, Fruit : March-April
• Collection Nos : CJS 11618, CJS 13677
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Hassan district, Dakshina Kannada district, Mysuru district, Bengaluru district (FRLHT Campus)
  • Kerala : Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Saldanha, C. J. 1996. Flora of Karnataka vol. 2; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.A1:A6
• 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 occidentale. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

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