- Family : ULMACEAE
(Elm Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : KHIRK FAMILY
- Family (as per The APG System III) : CANNABACEAE
- Synonym(s) : Celtis philippensis var. wightii (Planch.) Soepadmo
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Celtis philippensis Blanco
- Vernacular name : Pinari (Kannada); Elumbiritti, Kodalimurukki (Tamil); Verrimusti, Kovakamusti, Tella kovakamusti (Telugu); Bhoothakkali, Kalluveera, Peenari, Vellakkuyyan (Malayalam)
- Habit : Tree
- Habitat : Dry and moist deciduous and shola forests
- Comments / notes : Occasional on foothills to 1200m in moist deciduous forests. Fruits edible. (Franklin & Murthy, 2013)
- Flower, Fruit : December-June
- Collector(s) Name : Arun Singh, Navendu Page, Raja K. Swamy & K. Sankara Rao
- Collection Date : 23-03-2016; 25-03-2016
- Collection Nos : HJCB-0617; HJCB-0668
- Collection Locality : Salem-Yercaud Ghat road, Salem district (TN); Kolli Hills Ghat road, Namakkal district (TN)
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district, Kurnool district
- Kerala : Palakkad district, Idukki district
- Tamil Nadu : Salem district, Vellore district
- Native : India, Malaysia, Tropical Africa
- World Distribution : India, Africa, Madagascar, Myanmar, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, Thailand, Malaysia to Australia
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature : Parthsarathy, N & Pragasan , A L 2009. Check List 5(3):542-569; Franklin Benjamin & G.V.S.Murthy, 2013. Flora of Sri Venkateswara National Park, Andhra Pradesh, BSI; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
- 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=Celtis philippensis. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.
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