Ardisia blatteri Gamble

 
  • Family : MYRSINACEAE
    (Myrsine Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : VIDANGA FAMILY (विडंग फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : PRIMULACEAE
  • Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Ardisia blatteri Gamble
  • Habit : Shrub
  • Habitat : Evergreen and shola forests
  • Comments / notes : Restricted to Megamalai and Agastyamalai hills in the shola forests at elevations about 1500 m.
  • Flower, Fruit : October-December
  • Distribution :
    • Kerala : Idukki district, Kollam district
    • Tamil Nadu : Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary, Theni district
  • Endemism : Southern Western Ghats
  • Conservation Status : Endangered (EN)
  • Literature : Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; 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); 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=Ardisia blatteri. Downloaded on 8 December 2024.

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