• Family : SAPINDACEAE
  (Soapberry Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : REETHA FAMILY (रीठा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : Sapindaceae
• Basionym : Rhus cobbe L.
• Synonym(s) : Rhus arborea Macfad. ex Griseb.; Allophylus filiger Radlk.; Allophylus serrulatus Radlk.; Aporetica gemella DC.; Gemella trifoliata Lour.; Ornitrophe asiatica Steud.; Ornitrophe cobbe (L.) Willd.; Ornitrophe malabarica Hiern; Ornitrophe schmidelia Pers.; Pometia ternata Willd.; Pometia ternata G.Forst.; Schmidelia adenophylla Wall.; Schmidelia cobbe (L.) DC.; Schmidelia cochinchinensis DC.; Schmidelia dentata Wall. ex Voigt; Schmidelia gemella Cambess.; Schmidelia kobbe Lam.; Schmidelia obovata A.Gray; Schmidelia orientalis Sw.; Schmidelia ornitrophioides Wall.; Schmidelia vestita Wall.; Toxicodendrum cobbe (L.) Gaertn.
• Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Allophylus cobbe (L.) Raeusch.
• Common name : Tipan
• Vernacular name :
  • Lavatepannu (Kannada)
  • Gunagutti (Telugu)
  • Mukkannanpezhu, Mukkanamperu (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Tropical moist deciduous forests, Tropical semi-evergreen forests, also in sacred groves
• Flower, Fruit : May-January
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district, Visakhapatnam district, Y.S.R. Kadapa district, Srikakulam district, West Godavari district
  • Karnataka : Ballari district, Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Tumakuru district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Maharashtra : Kolhapur district, Nashik district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
  • Tamil Nadu : Dharmapuri district, Vellore district, Tiruvannamalai district, Coimbatore district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Salem district
  • Arunachal Pradesh : Arunachal Pradesh
  • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
  • Assam : Assam
  • Nagaland : Nagaland
  • Mizoram : Mizoram
  • Andaman and Nicobar Islands : North and Middle Andaman,Portlob,Long,Baratang Islands
  • Manipur : Manipur
  • Tripura : Tripura
  • Lakshadweep : Suheli Islands, Minicoy Islands
• Native : Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Lakshadweep Islands, Laos, Malaya, Maldives, Myanmar, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Vietnam
• Exotic/Native : Native
• World Distribution : Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Lakshadweep Islands, Laos, Malaya, Maldives, Myanmar, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Vietnam
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature :
  • Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1
  • J.L.Ellis, 1987- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 1
  • R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District
  • R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District
  • N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka
  • Sudhakar Reddy, C et al., 2009. Tree Wealth of Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh, India
  • Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
  • Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1
  • Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan
  • Saldanha, 1996
  • Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri
  • Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore
  • Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state
  • Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi
  • Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District
  • Parkinson, C.E. 1923. A Forest Flora of the Andaman Islands, Govt. of India, Shimla: 136
  • C., Sudhakar Reddy & Roy, Parth. (2011). Plant Diversity of Lakshadweep Islands.
• Read more :
  • Plants of the World Online
  • World Flora Online
  • Global Plants on JSTOR
• Permalink : http://indiaflora-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Allophylus cobbe
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2026). India Flora Online. http://indiaflora-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Allophylus cobbe. Downloaded on 30 January 2026.

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