• Family : RHIZOPHORACEAE
  (Mangrove Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : SADABAHAR FAMILY (सदाबहार फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : RHIZOPHORACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Blepharistemma serratum (Dennst.) Suresh
• Common name : Neerkuruntha
• Vernacular name : Nirkurunda (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Moist deciduous forests and semi-Evergreen forests, also in the plains
• Flower, Fruit : February-July
• Collection Nos : Metz in Hohenack 713 (K)
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Udupi district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Ernakulam district, Kottayam district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
• Native : India
• Endemism : India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha, C. J. 1996. Flora of Karnataka vol. 2; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• 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=Blepharistemma membranifolia. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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