- Family : FLACOURTIACEAE
(Flacourtia Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : CHILLA FAMILY (चिल्ला फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Salicaceae
- Synonym(s) : Casearia zeylanica (Gaertn.) Thwaites; Guidonia esculenta (Roxb.) Baill.; Casearia esculenta Roxb.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Casearia esculenta Roxb.
- Common name : Wild Cowrie Fruit
- Vernacular name :
- Kottagovai (Tamil)
- Bairi (Hindi)
- Habit : Tree
- Habitat : Tropical semi-evergreen forests
- Comments / notes : Rare in Eastern Ghats
- Flower, Fruit : February-September
- Collector(s) Name : S.R Ramesh; Arun Singh, Karuppusamy, Tilakar M; Arun Singh, Karuppusamy, Tilakar M
- Collection Date : 21-07-1978, 16-06-2014, 16-06-2014
- Collection Nos : KFP 1875; HJCB-E-10; HJCB-E-05
- Collection Locality : Kolcharu RF, Dakshina Kannada district (KA); Sambaru valley, Azhagar Hills, Madurai district (TN); Sambaru valley, Azhagar Hills, Madurai district (TN)
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Seethampet forest (Srikakulam district)
- Karnataka : Belagavi district, Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district
- Maharashtra : Dhule district, Kolhapur district, Nashik district, Raigad district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district
- Tamil Nadu : Alagar Hills (Madurai district), Sirumalai Hills (Dindigul district), Coimbatore district, Kanyakumari district, The Nilgiri district, Ramanathapuram district, Thanjavur district, Tiruchirapalli district, Tirunelveli district
- Native : India, Sri Lanka
- World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- N.P. Sing & S. Karthikeyan 2000. Flora of Maharashtra vol 1
- Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1
- Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka
- Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984
- Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state
- Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Casearia championii. Downloaded on 9 October 2024.
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