- Family : CLUSIACEAE
(Garcinia Or Kokam Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : KOKAM FAMILY (कोकम फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Clusiaceae
- Basionym : Mangostana cambogia Gaertn.; Cambogia gemmi-gutta L.
- Synonym(s) : Garcinia cambogia (Gaertn.) Desr.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Garcinia gummi-gutta (L.) Roxb.
- Common name : Malabar Gamboge
- Vernacular name :
- Vrukshamlah (Sanskrit)
- Bilatti-amli (Hindi)
- Kodakkapuli (Tamil)Punarpuli, Upaagi mara (Kannada)
- Korakkapuli, Kodampuli, Kudapuli, Kokakkappuli, Marapuli, Meenpuli, Perumpuli, Pinumpuli, Pinar (Malayalam)
- Habit : Tree
- Habitat : Along streams in evergreen and Tropical semi-evergreen forests up to 1250m
- Comments / notes : The fruits are edible, sometimes used as a condiment for flavouring curries in place of tamarind.
- Key identification features : A medium-sized evergreen tree. Leaves are simple, elliptic-oblong, up to 12 cm long, 5cm broad. Flowers are unisexual, staminate flowers 15-20-fascicled on new and old branches, tetramerous, stamens in globular mass, slightly raised above the receptacle. Ovary 6-12 locular, grooved, fruit a berry, elliptic- oblong to 5 cm in diameter with 6-8 grooves.
- Flower, Fruit : January-August
- Collection Nos : CJS 11600, CJS 11828, CJS 13177
- Distribution :
- Goa : North Goa district, South Goa district
- Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Shivamogga district, Udupi district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Uttara Kannada district
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Maharashtra : Mumbai Suburban district, Konkan
- Tamil Nadu : Guthirayan Hills (Dharmapuri district), Coimbatore district, Dharmapuri district, The Nilgiri district, Tirunelveli district, Kanyakumari district
- Native : India
- Endemism : Western Ghats
- World Distribution : India
- Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
- Literature :
- Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnatka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi
- Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished)
- Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg district
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi district
- Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983
- Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
- Navendu Page (2017). Endemic woody plants of the Western Ghats
- N.P. Sing & S. Karthikeyan 2000. Flora of Maharastra vol 1. Botanical survey of India, Govt. India.
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Garcinia gummi-gutta. Downloaded on 15 October 2024.
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