Herbarium JCB

Caryota urens L.

Family : ARECACEAE
(Palm Family)
Family (Hindi name) : NARIYAL FAMILY (नारियल फैमिली)
Family (as per The APG System III) : ARECACEAE
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Caryota urens L.
Common name : Fish-Tail Palm, Solitary Toddy Palm, Indian sago palm, Jaggery palm, Kittul
Vernacular name : Baine-mara (Kannada); Koonthalpanai, Thippilipanai (Tamil); Bherli-mad (Marathi); Aanapan, Choondappana, Eerumbana, Kalippana, Kappa, Ilattipana, Irampana (Malayalam); Salapo (Oria); Mari (Hindi); Jilugu jattu, Konda jivalaggu (Telugu)
Habit : Palm (Columnar)
Habitat : Shola forests
Comments / notes : Evergreen forests, also in the plains. Often planted in avenues and gardens. Frequent in the hills in deep ravines
Flower, Fruit : December-August
Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : KLM, Vishakapatnam district, Vizianagaram district, East Godavari district, West Godavari district, Krishna district, Guntur district, Prakasam district, Kurnool district, Nellore district, Kadapa district, Anantapur district, Chittoor district
- Telangana : Khammam district, Nalgonda district, Mehboobnagar district
- Karnataka : All districts of Karnataka
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Chandrapur district, Kolhapur district, Nagpur district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
- Tamil Nadu : Alagar Hills (Madurai district), Kolli Hills (Namakkal district), Shevaroy Hills, Kalrayan Hills, Bodamalai Hills (Salem district), Pachamalai Hills (Tiruchirapalli district), Chitteri Hills, Yelagiri Hills (Vellore district), Sirumalai Hills (Dindigul district), Dharmapuri Hills, Theerthamalai Hills (Dharmapuri district), Piranmalai Hills (Sivaganga district), Gingee Hill (Villipuram district), Javadu Hills (Tiruvannamalai district)
World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Malaya Peninsula, Nepal
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Pullaiah, 1997. Fl. Andhra Pradesh, vol. 3. pp. 1016; 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=Caryota urens. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.