• Family : STAPHYLEACEAE
  (Bladder-Nut Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : TURPINIA FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : STAPHYLEACEAE
• Basionym : Triceros cochinchinensis Lour.
• Synonym(s) : Turpinia nepalensis Wall. ex Wight & Arn.; Turpinia pomifera sensu Hiern in Hook.f. FBI 1895 p.p., non (Roxb.) DC. 1825.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Turpinia cochinchinensis (Lour.) Merr.
• Vernacular name : Attuneermulla, Kanali, Kambilivetti, Pambaravetti (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Flower, Fruit : April-May
• Collection Nos : KFP 12549, CS 1221
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Kollam district
  • Odisha : Mayurbhanj district, Malkangiri district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Kanyakumari district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Tiruchirapalli district, Tirunelveli district
• World Distribution : India, sub-tropical Himalayas, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, China, Nepal
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha, C. J. 1996. Flora of Karnataka vol. 2; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; 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=Turpinia cochinchinensis. Downloaded on 2 July 2025.

Botanical Description

Herbarium Specimen(s)

Field Image(s)