- Family : AQUIFOLIACEAE
(Holly Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : ILEX FAMILY
- Family (as per The APG System III) : AQUIFOLIACEAE
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Ilex wightiana Wall. ex Wight
- Vernacular name : Parasal, Vellodi (Malayalam); Badaga, Velloday (Tamil)
- Habit : Tree
- Habitat : Shola forests
- Comments / notes : In evergreen shola forests of above 1300m.
- Key identification features : Large tree
- Flower, Fruit : March-August
- Collector(s) Name : Arun Singh, Navendu Page, Raja K. Swamy & K. Sankara Rao
- Collection Date : 23/03/2016
- Collection Nos : HJCB-0591
- Collection Locality : Sanyasimalai, Yercaud, Salem district (TN)
- Distribution :
- Kerala : Kannur district, Kozhikode district, Palakkad district, Idukki district
- Tamil Nadu : Kolli Hills (Namakkal district), Shevaroy Hills (Salem district), Coimbatore district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district
- Native : India
- World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1; Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; 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=Ilex wightiana. Downloaded on 3 December 2024.
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