• Family : ANNONACEAE
  (Custard-Apple Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : SITAPHAL FAMILY (सीताफल फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ANNONACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Miliusa nilagirica Bedd. (Unesolved name)
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Elevation 670-1220 m.
• Flower, Fruit : March-December
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, The Nilgiri district, Tirunelveli district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Southern Western Ghats
• Conservation Status : Endangered (EN)
• Literature : Ravikumar, Udayan and Subramani 2001. Additions to the flora of Karnataka, India. My Forest Vol. 37(4). Dec. 2001; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; 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=Miliusa nilagirica. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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