• Family : STERCULIACEAE
  (Sterculia Or Cocoa Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : COCOA FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : MALVACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Evergreen and semi-Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Rare in evergreen forests of Western Ghats; elevation 500-1000 m.
• Flower, Fruit : June-September
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Kodagu (Coorg) district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Kanyakumari district
• World Distribution : Indo-Malesia
• Conservation Status : Vulnerable (VU)
• Literature : Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Navendu Page (2017). Endemic woody plants of the Western Ghats.
• 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=Leptonychia caudata. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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