• Family : RHAMNACEAE
  (Buckthorn Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : BER FAMILY (बेर फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : RHAMNACEAE
• Basionym : Ceanothus asiaticus L.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Colubrina asiatica (L.) Brongn.
• Vernacular name : Mayirmanikkan (Tamil)
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Moist and semi-Evergreen forests
• Key identification features : Much-branched, unarmed shrub; flowers yellowish green
• Flower, Fruit : December-May
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Malappuram district
  • Maharashtra : Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Sindhudurg district
  • Odisha : Koraput district
  • Tamil Nadu : Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Coimbatore district, Ramanathapuram district, Tiruchirapalli district, often planted near the coast
• World Distribution : India inclu.Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Indonesia, Australia, South Africa
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; N.P. Sing & S. Karthikeyan 2000. Flora of Maharashtra vol 1; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.
• 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=Colubrina asiatica. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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