- Family : RHAMNACEAE
(Buckthorn Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : BER FAMILY (बेर फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : RHAMNACEAE
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Maesopsis eminii Engl.
- Common name : Umbrella tree
- Vernacular name : Kudamaram (Malayalam)
- Habit : Tree
- Habitat : Grown as shade tree in coffee plantation
- Comments / notes : Introduced from Africa into coffee plantations. Sometimes also seen as an escape.
- Key identification features : A lofty tree of the forest, densely foliacious and huge buttress.
- Flower, Fruit : September-April
- Collector(s) Name : Arun Singh R, Karuppusamy & Tilakar M
- Collection Date : 17/06/2014
- Collection Nos : HJCB-E-28
- Collection Locality : Sirumalai Hills, Dindigal district (TN)
- Distribution :
- Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district
- Tamil Nadu : Yercaud Hills, Shevaroy Hills (Salem district), Sirumalai Hills (Dindigul district)
- Native : Africa
- World Distribution : India, Africa
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature : Parthsarathy, N & Pragasan , A L 2009. Check List 5(3):542-569; Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; 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=Maesopsis eminii. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.
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