• 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) : Unresolved name
• Vernacular name : Kokkuvalli (Malayalam); Peyppula (Tamil)
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Montane scrub jungles and shola forests
• Key identification features : Large woody climbing unarmed shrub. Berry globose, smooth, reddish purple when ripe
• Flower, Fruit : January-May
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district
  • Kerala : Idukki district
  • Maharashtra : Pune district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Nepal
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Yoganarasimhan, SN., Subramanyam and Razi, BA (1981). Flora of Chikmagalur District, Karnataka. Intl, Book Distri., Dehra Dun, Uttarakhand, India; 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=Rhamnus wightii. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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