• Family : SAPINDACEAE
  (Soapberry Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : REETHA FAMILY (रीठा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : SAPINDACEAE
• Basionym : Rhus cobbe L.
• Synonym(s) : Allophylus serrulatus Radlk.; Schmidelia rheedei Wight; Allophylus rheedei (Wight) Radlk.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Allophylus cobbe (L.) Raeusch.
• Common name : Tipan
• Vernacular name : Lavatepannu (Kannada); Gunagutti (Telugu); Mukkannanpezhu, Mukkanamperu (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Moist deciduous forests and semi-Evergreen forests, also in sacred groves
• Flower, Fruit : May-January
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district, Vishakapatnam district, Kadapa district, Srikakulam district, West Godavari district
  • Karnataka : Ballari district, Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Tumakuru district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Maharashtra : Kolhapur district, Nashik district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
  • Tamil Nadu : Dharmapuri district, Vellore district, Tiruvannamalai district, Coimbatore district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Salem district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1; J.L.Ellis, 1987- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 1; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; 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; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Saldanha, 1996; Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District
• 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=Allophylus cobbe. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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