• Family : MELIACEAE
  (Mahogany Or Neem Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : NEEM FAMILY (नीम फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : MELIACEAE
• Basionym : Beddomea simplicifolia Bedd.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Aglaia simplicifolia (Bedd.) Harms
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : In evergreen forests from Kodagu to Kanyakumari. Elevation 600-1600 m.
• Flower, Fruit : November-June
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Kodagu (Coorg) district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Kollam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Madurai district, Tirunelveli district
• Native : India
• World Distribution : Indo-Malesia
• Conservation Status : Near Threatened (NT)
• Literature : Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg district; Saldanha, C.J. (1996). Flora of Karnataka vol. 2. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; Navendu Page (2017). Endemic woody plants of the Western Ghats.
• 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 simplicifolia. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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