• Family : PROTEACEAE
  (Protea Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : SILVER OAK FAMILY (सिल्वर ओक फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : PROTEACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Helicia nilagirica Bedd.
• Vernacular name : Tagale muggu (Kannada)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Along river banks in semi-evergreen and Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Rare; often along streams from Agumbe to Kanyakumari
• Flower, Fruit : June-July
• Collection Nos : CJS 13718, CJS 14025
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Shivamogga district, Hassan district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Kanyakumari district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Southwest India
• Conservation Status : Data Deficient (DD)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Saldanha, C. J. (1996). Flora of Karnataka vol. 2. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; 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=Helicia nilagirica. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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