• Family : RUTACEAE
  (Rue Or Citrus Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : NIMBU FAMILY (नींबू फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : RUTACEAE
• Basionym : Piptostylis indica Dalz.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Clausena indica (Dalzell) Oliv.
• Vernacular name : Kattumunthiri, Gorakotta (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Semi-evergreen and Evergreen forests
• Key identification features : Small tree; inflorescence terminal
• Flower, Fruit : January-June
• Collection Nos : CJS 16424, CS 16526
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Belagavi district, HSM, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district
  • Maharashtra : Kolhapur district, Sindhudurg district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Kanyakumari district, The Nilgiri district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Saldanha, C. J. 1996. Flora of Karnataka vol. 2; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; 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=Clausena indica. Downloaded on 3 July 2025.

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