• Family : VIOLACEAE
  (Violet Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : RATHNAPURUSHA FAMILY (रत्नपुरुष फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : VIOLACEAE
• Basionym : Alsodeia bengalensis Wall.
• Synonym(s) : Rinorea zeylanica (Arn.) O.Ktze.; Pentaloba zeylanica Arn.; Alsodeia zeylanica (Arn.) Thw.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
• Habit : Tree
• Flower, Fruit : March-May
• Collection Nos : KFP 6987, CJS 15993, KFP 6987
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
• World Distribution : Indo-Malesia, Australia and Pacific Islands
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; 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.
• 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=Rinorea bengalensis. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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