• Family : SABIACEAE
  (Sabia Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : COGHSA FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : SABIACEAE
• Basionym : Millingtonia simplicifolia Roxb.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Meliosma simplicifolia (Roxb.) Walp.
• Vernacular name : Chengoini, Chenthanam, Kallavi, Kolakkatta (Malayalam); Cembavu, Kallavi (Tamil)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Shola and Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Rare
• Flower, Fruit : December-August
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Odisha : Mayurbhanj district, Sundergarh district, Sambalpur district, Angul district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Kanyakumari district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Tirunelveli district
• Native : Tropical Asia
• World Distribution : India, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, SW. China, Vietnam, Sumatra, Thailand, Indonesia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1; Sudhakar Reddy, C et al., 2009. Tree Wealth of Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh, India; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.
• 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. simplicifolia. Downloaded on 3 April 2025.

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