- Family : PROTEACEAE
(Protea Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : SILVER OAK FAMILY (सिल्वर ओक फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Proteaceae
- Synonym(s) : Helicia cornifolia W.T.Wang; Helicia erratica Hook.f.; Helicia erratica var. lungtauensis F.P.Metcalf; Helicia erratica var. sinica W.T.Wang; Helicia stricta Diels
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Helicia nilagirica Bedd.
- Vernacular name :
- Habit : Tree
- Habitat : Along river banks in semi-evergreen and Tropical evergreen forests
- Comments / notes : Rare; often along streams from Agumbe to Kanyakumari
- Key identification features : Scandent shrubs or small trees, 6-10 m high with spreading crown; Leaves obovate or oblanceolate, glaucous beneath; Flowers in axillary, glabrous racemes, yellowish; Fruits subglobose. Seeds red.
- 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
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Arunachal Pradesh : Siang
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Bhutan, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam
- Exotic/Native : Native
- Endemism : Southwest India
- World Distribution : Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Bhutan, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam
- 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.
- G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 346
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Helicia nilagirica. Downloaded on 7 September 2024.
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Botanical Description
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Herbarium Specimen(s)
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Line Drawings
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Field Image(s)
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India Distribution
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World Distribution
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