• Family : ANNONACEAE
  (Custard-Apple Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : SITAPHAL FAMILY (सीताफल फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ANNONACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Artabotrys zeylanicus Hook.f. & Thomson
• Vernacular name : Manoranjini (Malayalam)
• Habit : Climbing shrub
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Frequent in evergreen, semi-everegreen forests of Western Ghats up to 1000m, also in plains
• Flower, Fruit : September-June
• Collector(s) Name : C.J.Saldanha
• Collection Nos : Talbot 747 (K), CJS 13135, CJS 14194, KFP 726
• Collection Locality : Vanagur (Hassan)
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Davanagare district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Tamil Nadu : The Nilgiri district
• Native : India, Sri Lanka
• World Distribution : Peninsular India and Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; 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=Artabotrys zeylanicus. Downloaded on 4 April 2025.

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