• Family : SAPINDACEAE
  (Soapberry Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : REETHA FAMILY (रीठा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : SAPINDACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Allophylus concanicus Radlk.
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Evergreen and shola forests
• Key identification features : Climbing shrubs with brownish, lenticellate branchlets. Leaflets with pubescent midrib. Flowers solitary or in pairs. Calyx orbicular. Corolla whitish, hairy. Filaments reddish
• Flower, Fruit : December-April
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Tirunelveli district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• Conservation Status : Critically Endangered (CR)
• Literature : Sharma B.D, 1984 - Flora of Karnataka Analysis; 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=Allophylus concanicus. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

Botanical Description