• Family : OLEACEAE
  (Olive Or Jasmine Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : MOGRA FAMILY (मोगरा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : OLEACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Ligustrum perrottetii A.DC.
• Vernacular name : Sittilingi (Tamil); Pinkan, Pingi, Kathikodimaram (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Semi-Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : On hills to 1500m.
• Flower, Fruit : February-July
• Collector(s) Name : Arun Singh, Navendu Page, Raja K. Swamy & K. Sankara Rao
• Collection Date : 25/03/2016
• Collection Nos : HJCB-0672
• Collection Locality : Kolli Hills Ghat road, Namakkal district (TN)
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Dindigul district, Namakkal district, Theni district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Ravichandran, V. 2016. Taxonomic and Phytogeographical investigation on endemic plants of Western Ghats with special reference to Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary of Tamil Nadu (Ph.D. thesis work)
• 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=Ligustrum perrottetii. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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