• Family : ANNONACEAE
  (Custard-Apple Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : SITAPHAL FAMILY (सीताफल फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ANNONACEAE
• Basionym : Guatteria laurifolia Graham
• Synonym(s) : Bocagea dalzellii (Bedd.) Hook.f. & Thoms.; Sageraea dalzellii Bedd.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
• Vernacular name : Kanakaitha, Manyarei, Manjanara (Malayalam); Andi, Har-kinjal, Kiland, Sager, Undi (Marathi)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Key identification features : Bark and blaze aromatic.
• Flower, Fruit : March-September
• Collection Nos : KFP 10930, T.R.D. Bell 7884
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Kolhapur district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Tirunelveli district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• Conservation Status : Near Threatened (NT)
• Literature : Flora of Karnataka, Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; 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=Sageraea laurifolia. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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