- Family : FLACOURTIACEAE
(Flacourtia Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : CHILLA FAMILY (चिल्ला फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Salicaceae
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Flacourtia montana J. Graham
- Vernacular name :
- Arpu, Champe hannu, Hennu sampige, Kakkade hannu mara (Kannada)
- Champari, Chapar, Chaprin, Tar-bor (Marathi)
- Chalirpazham, Charalmaram, Charalpazham, Kattuloika, Muripacha, Painellicka, Vayyamkaitha (Malayalam)
- Habit : Tree
- Habitat : Tropical evergreen forests, Tropical semi-evergreen forests
- Comments / notes : Common in evergreen and Tropical semi-evergreen forests from Matheran to Kanyakumari; elevation 150-1100. Fruits are edible.
- Flower, Fruit : February-October
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district
- Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Hassan district, Dakshina Kannada district, Udupi district, Shivamogga district
- Kerala : Kasaragod district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Maharashtra : Aurangabad district, Mumbai Suburban district, Kolhapur district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
- Odisha : Angul district
- Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district
- Native : India
- World Distribution : India
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1
- Saldanha 1984. Flora Karnataka vol. 1.
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
- Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1
- Navendu Page (2017). Endemic woody plants of the Western Ghats
- M.R. Almeida (1996). Flora of Maharashtra vol.1
- Naidu, M.T. & O.A. Kumar (2015). Tree species diversity in the Eastern Ghats of northern Andhra Pradesh, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 7(8): 7443-7459.
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Flacourtia montana. Downloaded on 9 October 2024.
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