Herbarium JCB

Atalantia racemosa Wight & Arn.

Family : RUTACEAE
(Rue Or Citrus Family)
Family (Hindi name) : NIMBU FAMILY (नींबू फैमिली)
Family (as per The APG System III) : RUTACEAE
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Atalantia racemosa Wight ex Hook.
Vernacular name : Hucchu nimbe (Kannada); Kattu-narangam, Perungurundu (Tamil); Kadanimma (Telugu); Run limbu, Makad limbu (Marathi); Kattunaragam, Cherukoortham (Malayalam)
Habit : Shrub
Habitat : Evergreen, semi-evergreen and dry deciduous forests
Comments / notes : Rare in semi-evergreen forests
Flower, Fruit : October-May
Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Kadapa district (Kadapa district), Talakona RF (Chittoor district)
- Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Chikkamagaluru district, Kolar district, Mandya district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Tumakuru district, Uttara Kannada district
- Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Kolhapur district, Nashik district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
- Tamil Nadu : Salem district, Coimbatore district, Kanyakumari district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Ramanathapuram district, Tiruchirapalli district, Dharmapuri district, Villipuram district, Cuddalore district
World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka Vol. 1; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; Saldanha, C.J. (1996). Flora of Karnataka vol. 2. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 – Flora of Bangalore district; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District; N.P. Sing & S. Karthikeyan 2000. Flora of Maharastra vol 1. Botanical survey of India, Govt. India.
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=Atalantia racemosa. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.