- Family : RUBIACEAE
(Madder Or Coffee Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : COFFEE FAMILY (कॉफी फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : RUBIACEAE
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Neolamarckia cadamba (Roxb.) Bosser
- Common name : Kadamb Tree
- Vernacular name : Kadambah (Sanskrit); Kadamb (Hindi); Kaduavalatige, Kadamba-vriksha (Kannada); Aattuthekku, Kadaarvayura, Kadambari, Kadambu, Kadhamba-vriksham, Kattuchakka, Kodavara, Vellakadambu (Malayalam)
- Habit : Tree
- Habitat : Along banks of rivers and streams in Evergreen forests, also in the plains
- Comments / notes : Rare, found growing in wet places
- Key identification features : Horizontal branching tree, branch scars resemble shape of elephant's eye.
- Flower, Fruit : April-September
- Collection Nos : KFP 8425
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Belagavi district, Chikkamagaluru district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district
- Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Native : India
- World Distribution : Asia, Pacific, Ausralia
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature : Sharma B.D, 1984 - Flora of Karnataka Analysis; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; 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=Neolamarckia cadamba. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.
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