• Family : ANACARDIACEAE
  (Cashew Or Mango Or Sumac Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : AAM FAMILY (आम फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ANACARDIACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
• Vernacular name : Vellacheru, Charei, Charu (Malayalam); Velleicharei (Tamil)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Key identification features : Large handsome tree; bark smooth, grey
• Flower, Fruit : November-March
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Idukki district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Tirunelveli district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Southern Western Ghats
• Conservation Status : Near Threatened (NT)
• Literature : Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India 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=Semecarpus auriculata. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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