• Family : MORACEAE
  (Mulberry Or Fig Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ANJEER FAMILY (अंजीर फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : MORACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Not found in The Plant List
• Vernacular name : Lakucha (Sanskrit); Vate huli mara (Kannada); Chima, Kattukadaplavu, Pulichakka, Theetiplavu (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Evergreen, semi-evergreen and moist deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Planted. Frequent near human habitations and in forests. Fruit is edible. Timber is used for a variety of purposes. A fodder tree in Nepal.
• Key identification features : A large deciduous trees growing up to 20m. Bark dark grey or purplish, exfoliating, young parts of the plants are grey or rusty tomentose. Leaves are simple, leathery, ovate -oblong and grey downy underneath, Fruit is smooth and globose.
• Flower, Fruit : January-April
• Collector(s) Name : D.H.Nicolson, C.J.Saldanha & T.P.Ramamoorthy
• Collection Nos : HFP 238, KFP 1003, KFP 10978
• Collection Locality : Yettinahalla, Shiradi Ghat (Hassan)
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Ernakulam district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
• Native : India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Malaysia.
• World Distribution : South West India and Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnataka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora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=Artocarpus gomezianus subsp. zeylanicus. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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