Herbarium JCB

Ximenia americana L.

Family : OLACACEAE
(Olax Family)
Family (Hindi name) : DHENIANI FAMILY
Family (as per The APG System III) : OLACACEAE
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Ximenia americana L.
Common name : False Sandalwood
Vernacular name : Nagari gida (Kannada); Chiru-illanthai (Tamil)
Habit : Climbing shrub
Habitat : Banks of rivers
Comments / notes : Common in dry deciduous and open forests of Eastern Ghats. An interesting account of the haustorial root-parasitism was reported in X.americana (C.A.Barber, 1907)
Key identification features : Large thorny shrub in dry forests; fruits bright orange scarlet, edible
Flower, Fruit : January-July
Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Guntur district, East Godavari district, Prakasam district, Kurnool district
- Karnataka : Ballari district
- Kerala : Palakkad district
- Maharashtra : Jalgaon district
- Tamil Nadu : Salem district, Tiruvannamalai district, Vellore district, Dharmapuri district, Coimbatore district, Villipuram district, Cuddalore district
World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Africa, Myanmar, Indo-China, Thailand, Hainan, Malesia, N.Australia, Pacific Islands
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1; J.L.Ellis, 1987- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 1; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.
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=Ximenia americana. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.