• 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) : Unresolved name
• Habit : Climbing shrub
• Habitat : Moist deciduous and semi-Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Common
• Flower, Fruit : May-November
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Kodagu (Coorg) district, Hassan district
  • Odisha : Russelkonda Hills (Ganjam district), Bhanjnagar (Ganjam district)
  • Tamil Nadu : Melpatti (Vellore district)
• Native : India
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Endangered (EN)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; Nayar, M.P. & Sastry, A.R.K. 1990. Red Data Book of Indian Plants. Vol. 1-3. Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta; Saldanha, 1984; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state
• 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=Uvaria eucincta. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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