• 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) : Unresolved name
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Flower, Fruit : February-August
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Kodagu (Coorg) district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kollam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, The Nilgiri district, Tirunelveli district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• Conservation Status : Vulnerable (VU)
• Literature : Flora of Karnataka, Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; Ravichandran V personal observation 2015 Feb; 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=Orophea uniflora. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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