• 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) : Pterospermum rubiginosum Heyne ex Wight & Arn. (Not found in Plant list)
• Vernacular name : Chittileipolavu (Tamil); Chittilaplavu, Ellooti, Malamthodali (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Flower, Fruit : November-April
• Collection Nos : KFP 9744
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Bengaluru district (FRLHT Campus)
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Tiruchirapalli district, Tirunelveli district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; 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=Pterospermum rubiginosum. Downloaded on 23 November 2024.

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