• 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) : Goniothalamus cardiopetalus (Dalzell) Hook.f. & Thomson
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Moist deciduous and Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Occasional along streams at elevations 450-1150 m.
• Flower, Fruit : January-September
• Collection Nos : CJS 14473, CJS 16602, KFP 5486, KFP 11824
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Uttara Kannada district, Kodagu (Coorg) district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Salem district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• Conservation Status : Vulnerable (VU)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnataka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; Henry, Kumari & Chithra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; Navendu Page (2017). Endemic woody plants of the Western Ghats.
• 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=Goniothalamus cardiopetalus. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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