• Family : PITTOSPORACEAE
  (Pittosporum Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : AGNI FAMILY (अग्नि फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : PITTOSPORACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
• Vernacular name : Kuhi-mavu (Kannada); Analivenga (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Evergreen and shola forests, along streams
• Comments / notes : Occasional semi-evergreen to evergreen forests in higher elevations
• Flower, Fruit : January-June
• Collector(s) Name : Arun Singh R, Karuppusamy & Tilakar M; R. Raghavendra Rao
• Collection Date : 17-06-2014; 10-02-1972
• Collection Nos : HJCB-E-20; R.R. Rao 1805
• Collection Locality : Sirumalai Hills, Dindigal district (TN); Devakeri, near Bedguli, B.R. Hills, Chamarajanagar district (KA)
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chamarajanagar district, Mysuru district, Chikkamagaluru district, Bengaluru district (FRLHT Campus)
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Sirumalai Hills (Dindigul district), Coimbatore district, Kanyakumari district, Madurai district, Ramanathapuram district, Salem district, Tirunelveli district
• Native : India
• Endemism : South India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Parthsarathy, N & Pragasan , A L 2009. Check List 5(3):542-569; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnataka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi.
• 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=Pittosporum neelgherrense. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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