• 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 14 November 2024.

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