- Family : ELAEOCARPACEAE
(Olivnut Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : RUDRAKSHA FAMILY (रुद्राक्ष फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Elaeocarpaceae
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Elaeocarpus tuberculatus Roxb.
- Vernacular name :
- Malampinnai, Ruthraksam (Tamil)
- Rudraksha (Marathi)
- Adraksham, Ammakkara, Karamaram, Kara, Kodavasi, Mukkanni, Naggara, Navati, Pilahi, Rudraksham, Thodayam, Vellathaanni (Malayalam)
- Habit : Tree
- Habitat : Tropical evergreen forests, Montane wet temperate forests, Shola
- Comments / notes : At elevations 1000-1500m
- Key identification features : Large tree with grey and white nottled bark; fruit ovoid, smooth, laterally compressed, side deeply tubercled, margins thickened.
- Flower, Fruit : December-October
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Belagavi district, Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district, Bengaluru district
- Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Kanyakumari district, Madurai district, Tirunelveli district
- Native : Andaman Islands, Bangladesh, India, Jawa, Myanmar
- World Distribution : Indo-Malesia
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka
- Saldanha, 1984
- Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished)
- Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg district
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
- 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=Elaeocarpus tuberculatus. Downloaded on 6 October 2024.
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