• Family : LAURACEAE
  (Laurel Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : DALCHINI FAMILY (दालचीनी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LAURACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Actinodaphne tadulingamii Gamble
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Rare in evergreen forests of Western Ghats.
• Key identification features : Branchlets fulvous-tomentose. Leaves with ciliate margin, broadly elliptic. Flowers in umbels, Silky-pubescent. Perianth lobes oblong. Berry ovoid or globose.
• Flower, Fruit : August-April
• Collector(s) Name : S.R Ramesh & S.Udaya Kumar; C.J.Saldanha & B.Gurudev Singh
• Collection Nos : KFP 13727, KFP 11334, KFP 766
• Collection Locality : Near Dam site FRL (Uttara Kannada); Hulekal to Agumbe road (Shimoga)
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Thiruvananthapuram district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Rare (R)
• Literature : Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014- Flora of South Kanara; 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=Actinodaphne tadulingamii. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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