• Family : SABIACEAE
  (Sabia Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : COGHSA FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : SABIACEAE
• Basionym : Millingtonia pungens Wall. ex Wight & Arn.
• Synonym(s) : Meliosma wightii Planch.ex Brandis
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Not found in The Plant List
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Shola and moist deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Occasional along moist deciduous forests and in sholas up to 1400m.
• Key identification features : Small-medium sized tree
• Flower, Fruit : April-December
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Hassan district, Mysuru district, Kodagu (Coorg) district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Idukki district
  • Tamil Nadu : Kolli Hills (Namakkal district), Shevaroy Hills (Salem district), Coimbatore district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Kodaikanal (Dindigul district)
• Native : India, Sri Lanka
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Sumatra, China
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Parthsarathy, N & Pragasan , A L 2009. Check List 5(3):542-569; Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan District; Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnatka State vol.1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Coorg
• 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=Meliosma simplicifolia subsp. pungens. Downloaded on 7 September 2024.

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