- Family : ICACINACEAE
(Icacina Or White Pear Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : GHENERA FAMILY
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Icacinaceae
- Synonym(s) : Chailletia edulis Kurz; Sarcostigma edule Kurz; Sarcostigma horsfieldii R.Br.; Sarcostigma roxburghii Wall. ex Griff.; Sarcostigma wallichii Baill.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Sarcostigma kleinii Wight & Arn.
- Vernacular name :
- Erumathali, Odal, Vattodal, Vellodal (Malayalam)
- Odal, Peevenna (Tamil)
- Habit : Climbing shrub
- Habitat : Tropical evergreen forests, Tropical semi-evergreen forests, along the ghats, also in the sacred groves
- Comments / notes : Frequent in forests along Western Ghats at low elevations.
- Key identification features : A large climbing shrub. Leaves alternate, oblong-lanceolate, glabrous. Flowers minute, dioecious, yellowish. Fruit a drupe, oblong, compressed, orange-yellow
- Flower, Fruit : October-February
- Collection Nos : KFP 4023, HFP 2714, CJS 11391
- Distribution :
- Goa : South Goa district
- Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district, Udupi district
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Maharashtra : Kolhapur district
- Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Kanyakumari district, The Nilgiri district, Tirunelveli district
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands : North and Middle Andaman, South Andaman, Rutland and Baratang Islands
- Native : Borneo, India, Jawa, Malaya, Myanmar, Vietnam
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Borneo, India, Jawa, Malaya, Myanmar, Vietnam
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka
- Saldanha, C. J. 1996. Flora of Karnataka vol. 2
- Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
- Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.
- Parkinson, C.E. 1923. A Forest Flora of the Andaman Islands, Govt. of India, Shimla: 126
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Sarcostigma kleinii. Downloaded on 5 October 2024.
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