- Family : DATISCACEAE
(Tetrameles Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : TETRAMELES FAMILY
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Tetramelaceae
- Synonym(s) : Anictoclea grahamiana Nimmo; Tetrameles grahamiana (Nimmo) Wight; Tetrameles horsfieldii Steud.; Tetrameles rufinervis Miq.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Tetrameles nudiflora R.Br.
- Vernacular name :
- Chini, Cheeni, Cheenimaram, Vellapasa (Malayalam)
- Habit : Tree
- Habitat : Tropical vergreen forests, Tropical semi-evergreen forests, Tropical moist deciduous forests, also in the plains
- Key identification features : Tree with buttressed trunk; exfoliating bark
- Flower, Fruit : March-May
- Collection Nos : KFP 12779, KFP 12958
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Karnataka
- Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Ernakulam district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- West Bengal : Darjeeling district, Jalpaiguri district
- Arunachal Pradesh : Arunachal Pradesh
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands : Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Andaman Islands, Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Paleotropics
- Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
- Literature :
- Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984
- Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Coorg
- 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: 181
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Tetrameles nudiflora. Downloaded on 9 February 2025.
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