- Family : CLUSIACEAE
(Garcinia Or Kokam Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : KOKAM FAMILY (कोकम फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Clusiaceae
- Synonym(s) : Discostigma febrile Miq.; Garcinia basacensis Pierre; Garcinia benthamii Pierre; Garcinia broewas Boerl.; Garcinia cornea L.; Garcinia fabrilis Miq.; Garcinia ferrea Pierre; Garcinia hombroniana Pierre; Garcinia jawoera Pierre; Garcinia kingii Pierre ex Vesque; Garcinia krawang Pierre; Garcinia kurzii Pierre; Garcinia massoniana Klotzsch ex Planch. & Triana; Garcinia riedeliana Pierre; Garcinia rumphii Pierre; Garcinia sintang Boerl.; Oxycarpus celebica (L.) Poir.; Oxycarpus indica Buch.-Ham. ex Wall.; Stalagmitis celebica (L.) G.Don; Garcinia speciosa Wall.; Garcinia affinis Wall. ex Pierre
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Garcinia celebica L.
- Habit : Tree
- Habitat : Tropical evergreen forests, dispersed throughout the islands
- Key identification features : A pretty tree with a dark greenish bark peeling in flakes which leave small yellowish-brown patches, with cut dark reddish. Flowers yellow, usually 4-5 fasciculate, axillary or between the terminal pair of leaves, Fruit bright red when ripe.
- Flower, Fruit : November-August
- Distribution :
- Kerala : Kerala
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands : Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- Parkinson, C.E. 1923. A Forest Flora of the Andaman Islands, Govt. of India, Shimla: 90
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Garcinia celebica. Downloaded on 7 October 2024.
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