• Family : SAPINDACEAE
  (Soapberry Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : REETHA FAMILY (रीठा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : SAPINDACEAE
• Basionym : Ptelea arborea Blanco
• Synonym(s) : Harpullia mellea Lauterb.; Harpullia imbricata (Blume) Thw.; Otonychium imbricatum Blume
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Harpullia arborea (Blanco) Radlk.
• Common name : Dolls eyes, Mogum-mogum
• Vernacular name : Bidyale (Kannada); Nei Kottei (Tamil); Phutika, Patuli (Oria); Chittilamadakku, Puzhukkolli (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Along streams in semi-evergreen and Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Rare
• Key identification features : A large tree; capsule inflated, 2-lobed, orange-scarlet
• Flower, Fruit : December-August
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district
  • Maharashtra : Konkan
  • Odisha : Dhenkanal district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, The Nilgiri district, Tirunelveli district
• Native : Indo-Malaysia
• World Distribution : India, Andaman & Nicobar Islands (India), Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Australia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; N.P. Sing & S. Karthikeyan 2000. Flora of Maharashtra vol 1; 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=Harpullia arborea. Downloaded on 3 June 2025.

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