- Family : CLUSIACEAE
(Garcinia Or Kokam Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : KOKAM FAMILY (कोकम फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Clusiaceae
- Synonym(s) : Cambogia crassifolia Blanco; Garcinia cornea Roxb. ex Sm.; Garcinia dioica Sm.; Garcinia roxburghii Wight; Garcinia umbellifera Wall.; Garcinia wallichii Choisy; Oxycarpus gangetica Buch.-Ham.; Stalagmitis cowa (Roxb. ex Choisy) G.Don; Stalagmitis kydiana G.Don; Stalagmitis umbellata G.Don
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Garcinia cowa Roxb. ex Choisy
- Common name : Beach Calophyllum, Borneo Mahogany, Cowa fruit, Cowa mangosteen
- Vernacular name :
- Kataphal, Kowa (Hindi)
- Sankadu, Sarbana, Rajkusuma (Oria)
- Kowa (Malayalam)
- Habit : Tree
- Habitat : Tropical evergreen forests, Shola along streams
- Comments / notes : The acid fruit is eaten and is pleasant to the taste, but is full of a yellow juice which sticks to the teeth and gives one an uncomfortable feeling in the mouth. The young leaves are cooked and eaten as vegetable by Burmans
- Key identification features : A slender tall tree, with a thin, slightly rough, bleeding bark; cut red, turning brown. Leaves broadly lanceolate, shortly acuminate, glabrous and glossy above, lateral nerves numerous but indistinct. Flower yellow, waxy and polished, in few-flowered axillary cymes; petals thick, rounded, erect and slightly inflexed. Fruit depressed globular with shallow grooves, the size of a lime, smooth and yellow when ripe.
- Flower, Fruit : December-September
- Collector(s) Name : Arun Singh, Raja K. Swamy & Navendu Page
- Collection Date : 27/02/2016
- Collection Nos : HJCB-0529
- Collection Locality : Barbera forest, Khurda district (OD)
- Distribution :
- Kerala : Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Idukki district
- Odisha : Mayurbhanj district, Angul district, Sundergarh district
- Tamil Nadu : The Nilgiri district, Tirunelveli district
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands : Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- World Distribution : India, Andamans (India) Myanmar, Bangladesh, Yunnan, Thailand
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1
- H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa
- Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
- Parkinson, C.E. 1923. A Forest Flora of the Andaman Islands, Govt. of India, Shimla
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- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Garcinia cowa. Downloaded on 2 July 2024.
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Herbarium Specimen(s)
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Field Image(s)
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Habitat
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India Distribution
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World Distribution
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