• 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 wightii Hook.f. & Thomson
• Vernacular name : Malamthelli (Malayalam)
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Rare in high elevation evergreen forests from Periyar to Kanyakumari; elevation 1000-1400 m.
• Flower, Fruit : March-June
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Tirunelveli district, Theni district, Virudhunagar district
• Endemism : South Western Ghats
• Conservation Status : Endangered (EN)
• Literature : Gamble, 1915. Fl. Pres. Madr. Vol. 1:pp.18.; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; 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); 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 wightii. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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