• Family : RUTACEAE
  (Rue Or Citrus Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : NIMBU FAMILY (नींबू फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : RUTACEAE
• Basionym : Limonia alata Wight & Arn.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Pleiospermium alatum (Wight & Arn.) Swingle
• Vernacular name : Kurunthumul thazhai (Tamil); Kurtham (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Dry deciduous forests, foot hills; less in the plains to the coast
• Comments / notes : Occasional in foothills of scrub jungles and in deciduous forests up to 900m.
• Key identification features : Shrub or small tree; leaves trifoliate
• Flower, Fruit : January-July
• Collector(s) Name : Arun Singh R, Karuppusamy & Tilakar M
• Collection Date : 17/06/2014
• Collection Nos : HJCB-E-18
• Collection Locality : Sirumalai Hills, Dindigal district (TN)
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Mysuru district, Bengaluru district (FRLHT Campus)
  • Kerala : Idukki district
  • Tamil Nadu : Throughout Tamil Nadu hills
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Indo-Malesia, China and Australia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; 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.
• 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=Pleiospermium alatum. Downloaded on 7 September 2024.

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