• Family : SANTALACEAE
  (Sandalwood Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : CHANDAN FAMILY (चन्दन फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : SANTALACEAE
• Basionym : Pothos pentandrus Dennst.
• Synonym(s) : Scleropyrum wallichianum (Wight & Arn.) Arn.; Sphaerocarya wallichiana Wight & Arn.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Scleropyrum pentandrum (Dennst.) Mabb.
• Vernacular name : Irumulli, Vathamparatti (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Semi-evergreen and Evergreen forests and also in the sacred groves
• Flower, Fruit : January-April
• Collection Nos : KFP 4975, KFP 5406, KFP 10390
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Kasaragod district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha, C. J. 1996. Flora of Karnataka vol. 2; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• 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=Scleropyrum pentandrum. Downloaded on 3 April 2025.

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