• 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) : Artocarpus hirsutus Lam.
• Common name : Wild Jack Tree, Aini, Hirsute Artocarpus
• Vernacular name : Hebba halasu (Kannada); Lakucah (Sanskrit); Anjili, Ayani, Anniliayari (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Semi-evergreen and moist deciduous forests, also in the plains
• Flower, Fruit : December-June
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Davanagare district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Tamil Nadu : Kanyakumari district
• Native : Tropical Asia
• World Distribution : Tropical Asia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Parthsarathy, N & Pragasan , A L 2009. Check List 5(3):542-569; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnatka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Gowda, 2004 – Flora of Sringeri; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg district; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi district; Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere district; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; 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=Artocarpus hirsutus. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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