- Family : CLUSIACEAE
(Garcinia Or Kokam Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : KOKAM FAMILY (कोकम फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Clusiaceae
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Garcinia morella (Gaertn.) Desr.
- Common name : Ceylon Gamboge, Indian Gamboge tree
- Vernacular name :
- Hiravi, Kalaskandhah, Kankustha (Sanskrit)
- Tamal (Hindi)
- Ardaala, Murinahuli, Jirigehuli, Devanahuli (Kannada)
- Chigiri, Daramba, Iravi (Malayalam)
- Habit : Tree
- Habitat : Tropical evergreen forests, Tropical semi-evergreen forests
- Key identification features : A small tree with yellow latex. Flowers are yellowish white, tetramerous; Stamens many, anthers are peltate showing circumscissile dehiscence. Fruit is a berry.
- Flower, Fruit : October-August
- Collection Nos : KFP 956, KFP 7081
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district
- Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, The Nilgiri district, Tirunelveli district
- Native : India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore.
- World Distribution : Indo-Malesia
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka
- Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Flora of Sringeri (checklist unpublished)
- Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi District
- Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1
- 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 morella. Downloaded on 12 October 2024.
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