- Family : ARECACEAE
(Palm Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : NARIYAL FAMILY (नारियल फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Arecaceae
- Basionym : Elate sylvestris L.
- Synonym(s) : Elate versicolor Salisb.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Phoenix sylvestris (L.) Roxb.
- Common name : Wild Date Palm, Thoddy Palm, Date sugar palm, Indian date Palm
- Vernacular name :
- Ichalu mara (Kannada)
- Eechamaram, Periya eecahm (Tamil)
- Shindi (Marathi)
- Kattinta (Malayalam)
- Khajuri, Khejur, Kojari (Oria)
- Pedda-ita (Telugu)
- Khajuri (Hindi)
- Habit : Palm
- Comments / notes : Often on plains in scrub jungles and wastelands. The floral apex is tapped for Toddy
- Flower, Fruit : January-October
- Collector(s) Name : Cecil J. Saldanha, T.P.Ramamoorthy; Cecil J. Saldanha, B.Gurudev Singh, Shivaprakash; Raja K. Swamy, Navendu Page, Ravichandran V.
- Collection Date : 5-12-1970, 28-10-1981, 02-03-2017
- Collection Nos : HFP 1222, KFP 13900, HJCB 987
- Collection Locality : Hassan-Sakleshpur road, Hassan district; Bababudangiri, Chikkamagaluru district; Jasipur town, Odisha
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Throughout Andhra Pradesh
- Karnataka : All districts of Karnataka
- Kerala : Kozhikode district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Amravati district, Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Jalgaon district, Kolhapur district, Nagpur district, Nashik district, Osmanabad district, Pune district, Raigad district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district, Yavatmal district
- Odisha : Throughout Odisha
- Tamil Nadu : Throughout Hills of Tamil Nadu
- Madhya Pradesh : Hoshangabad district
- Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
- Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
- Arunachal Pradesh : Subansiri
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Delhi : Delhi
- Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
- Punjab : Punjab
- Rajasthan : Karauli districtI,Sawai Madhopur districtR
- Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands : Andaman Islands
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Andaman Islands, Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Andaman Islands, Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4
- R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District
- R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District
- B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons
- Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983
- Pullaiah, 1997. Fl. Andhra Pradesh, vol. 3. pp. 951
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
- Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan
- Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 – Flora of Bangalore District
- Seetharam et al., 2000 – Flora of Gulbarga District
- Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District
- Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg District
- Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere District
- H J, Chowdhery, et al. Materials for Flora of Arunachal Pradesh. Volume 3, Botanical Survey of India, 2009. Pg.: 225
- Read more :
- Permalink : http://indiaflora-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Phoenix sylvestris
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2026). India Flora Online. http://indiaflora-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Phoenix sylvestris. Downloaded on 17 February 2026.
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