- Family : DATISCACEAE
(Tetrameles Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : TETRAMELES FAMILY
- Family (as per The APG System III) : TETRAMELACEAE
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Tetrameles nudiflora R.Br.
- Vernacular name : Chini, Cheeni, Cheenimaram, Vellapasa (Malayalam)
- Habit : Tree
- Habitat : Evergreen, semi-evergreen and moist deciduous forests, also in the plains
- Key identification features : Tree with buttressed trunk; exfoliating bark
- Flower, Fruit : March-May
- Collection Nos : KFP 12779, KFP 12958
- Distribution :
- Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Ernakulam district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- World Distribution : Paleotropics
- Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
- Literature : Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Coorg; 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=Tetrameles nudiflora. Downloaded on 13 December 2024.
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