• Family : MELIACEAE
  (Mahogany Or Neem Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : NEEM FAMILY (नीम फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : MELIACEAE
• Basionym : Nemedra elaeagnoidea A.Juss.
• Synonym(s) : Aglaia roxburghiana (Wight & Arn.) Miq.; Milnea roxburghiana Wight & Arn.; Aglaia elaeagnoidea var. Courtallensis (Gamble) Nair
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Aglaia elaeagnoidea (A.Juss.)Benth.
• Common name : Chakoola Tree
• Vernacular name : Priyangu (Hindi); Thottulu (Kannada); Erra aduga (Telugu); Chokkala (Tamil); Gandhaphala (Sanskrit); Punyava (Malayalam); Chokkala (Tamil)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Semi-Evergreen forests, sacred groves in the plains
• Comments / notes : Infrequent
• Key identification features : Tree, leaflets small, usually 5
• Flower, Fruit : November-August
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district, East Godavari district, West Godavari district
  • Karnataka : Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Uttara Kannada district, Belagavi district, Ballari district, Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Shivamogga district, Tumakuru district, Udupi district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Maharashtra : Ratnagiri district, Sindhudurg district, Kolhapur district
  • Odisha : Khurda district, Kalhandi district, Ganjam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Coimbatore district, The Nilgiri district, Tiruchirapalli district, Tirunelveli district, Theni district, Vellore district, Tiruvannamalai district, Dharmapuri district, Kanyakumari district, Tirunelveli district, Salem district, Villipuram district, Cuddalore district
• Native : India
• World Distribution : Indo-Malesia to Pacific Islands
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; Ravichandran, V. 2016. Taxonomic and Phytogeographical investigation on endemic plants of Western Ghats with special reference to Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary of Tamil Nadu (Ph.D. thesis work); Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan District; Saldanha, C. J. (1996). Flora of Karnataka vol. 2. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Gowda, 2004 – Flora of Sringeri District; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi District; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District; N.P. Sing & S. Karthikeyan 2000. Flora of Maharastra vol 1. Botanical survey of India, Govt. India; M.R. Almeida (1996). Flora of Maharashtra vol.1; Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1.
• 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=Aglaia elaeagnoidea. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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