Baccaurea courtallensis Muell.-Arg.

 
  • Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
    (Spurge Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : AMLA FAMILY (आँवला फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Euphorbiaceae
  • Synonym(s) : Pierardia courtallensis Wight; Baccaurea sapida Bedd.
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Baccaurea courtallensis (Wight) Mull.Arg.
  • Vernacular name :
    • Koli kukke (Kannada)
    • Moothikaya, Mootilpazham, Mootippuli, Mootilthoori (Malayalam)
  • Habit : Tree
  • Habitat : Tropical evergreen forests, Tropical semi-evergreen forests
  • Comments / notes : Frequent throughout the low and mid-elevation evergreen forest from Kodagu to Kanyakumari; elevation 40-100 m.
  • Key identification features : Remarkable for their flowers growing in long racemose spikes in tufts on tubercles on the older stems. Fruit very acidic and edible.
  • Flower, Fruit : January-June
  • Collector(s) Name : Cecil J. Saldanha, S.R.Ramesh
  • Collection Nos : B.R.R. 11, KFP 14326
  • Collection Locality : Lakkidi Ghat (Waynad)
  • Distribution :
    • Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Uttara Kannada district
    • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Kozhikode district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Ernakulam district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
    • Tamil Nadu : Kanyakumari district
  • Native : India
  • Endemism : India
  • World Distribution : India
  • Conservation Status : Near Threatened (NT)
  • Literature :
    • Saldanha, C. J. (1996). Flora of Karnataka vol. 2. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi
    • Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg district
    • Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
    • Navendu Page (2017). Endemic woody plants of the Western Ghats.
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Baccaurea courtallensis. Downloaded on 3 December 2024.

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