• Family : THEACEAE
  (Tea Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : CHAAY FAMILY (चाय फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : THEACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Eurya japonica Thunb.
• Vernacular name : Kooramar (Malayalam)
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Moist and Evergreen forests, margins of grasslands and shola forests
• Comments / notes : Occasional in moist forest floors of sholas in deep shade, also along shola streams up to 1400m.
• Flower, Fruit : March-December
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district
  • Kerala : Palakkad district, Idukki district
  • Tamil Nadu : Kolli Hills (Namakkal district), Shevaroy Hills (Salem district)
• World Distribution : India, Himalayas, Sri Lanka, Japan, Fiji
• Literature : Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan 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=Eurya japonica. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

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