- Family : SAPOTACEAE
(Sapodilla Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : CHIKOO FAMILY (चीकू फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Sapotaceae
- Synonym(s) : Chrysophyllum javanicum Steud.; Chrysophyllum lanceolatum (Blume) A.DC.; Lucuma lanceolata (Blume) Zipp.; Nycterisition lanceolatum Blume; Chrysophyllum acuminatum Roxb.; Chrysophyllum bancanum Miq.; Chrysophyllum dioicum Koord. & Valeton; Chrysophyllum lanceolatum var. papuanum C.T.White; Chrysophyllum lanceolatum var. stellatocarpon P.Royen; Chrysophyllum pentagonum Hance; Chrysophyllum roxburghianum Speede; Chrysophyllum roxburghii G.Don; Chrysophyllum roxburghii var. papuanum C.T.White; Chrysophyllum sumatranum Miq.; Donella lanceolata var. malagassica Aubrév.; Donella roxburghii (G.Don) Pierre ex Lecomte; Donella roxburghii var. tonkinensis Lecomte; Lucuma tomentosa Zipp.; Niemeyera papuana H.J.Lam
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Donella lanceolata (Blume) Aubrév.
- Habit : Tree
- Habitat : Tropical dry deciduous forests, Tropical evergreen forests
- Comments / notes : Common
- Key identification features : Trees, 13-20 m high; Leaves oblong-Ianceolate, acuminate, coriaceous, glabrous; Flowers with rusty pilose corolla lobes; Berries fleshy, globose, 5-6 angled on drying; Seeds hard, compressed.
- Flower, Fruit : January-May
- Collection Nos : KFP 818, HFP 111
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Hassan district, Chikkamagaluru district, Kodagu (Coorg) district
- Arunachal Pradesh : Arunachal Pradesh
- Native : Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, China, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Madagascar, Malaya, Myanmar, New Guinea, Philippines, Queensland, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : India, Indomalaysia
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984
- Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished)
- Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state
- G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 129
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Chrysophyllum lanceolatum. Downloaded on 12 October 2024.
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