- Family : CELASTRACEAE
(Staff-Tree Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : MALKANGANI FAMILY (मालकांगनी फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Celastraceae
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Unresolved name
- Common name : Spindle Tree
- Vernacular name :
- Banale, Bel palle, Boralu palle (Kannada)
- Vembala, Venkadavam, Venkkotta (Malayalam)
- Venkittai (Tamil)
- Habit : Tree
- Habitat : Tropical evergreen forests and sacred groves
- Comments / notes : Rare
- Key identification features : Bark smooth, greyish-brown, forms huge buttresses.
- Flower, Fruit : November-July
- Collection Nos : Hohenacker (Metz) 324 (K) A, KFP 4960, KFP 7079
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Dindigul district, Dharmapuri district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Karur district, Krishnagiri district, Madurai district, Namakkal district, Pudukkottai district, Sivaganga district, Salem district, Tiruchirapalli district, Tiruvannamalai district, Villipuram district, Vellore district
- Native : Indo-Malayan
- World Distribution : Indo-Malesia
- Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
- 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
- Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished)
- Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi District
- Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Lophopetalum wightianum. 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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