- Family : LOGANIACEAE
(Logania Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : KAJARA FAMILY (कजरा फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Loganiaceae
- Synonym(s) : Gardneria oblonga F.Dietr.; Gardneria wallichii Wight ex Wall.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Gardneria ovata Wall.
- Habit : Climbing shrub
- Habitat : Tropical evergreen forests, Shola, also in sacred groves
- Key identification features : Large, woody climbers; stems twisted; Leaves ovate-lanceolate or ovate-elliptic, pale green, oily and shining; Flowers in paniculate cymes, pale yellow; Berries globose, scarlet at maturity; Seeds black.
- Flower, Fruit : February-December
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Hassan district, Mysuru district, Kodagu (Coorg) district
- Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Idukki district
- Tamil Nadu : Dindigul district
- Arunachal Pradesh : Changlang, Kameng, Lohit, Tirap
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Bangladesh, China, India, Jawa, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Sumatera, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Indo-Malesia
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
- Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan District
- Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District
- Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg District
- G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 175-176
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Gardneria ovata. Downloaded on 11 October 2024.
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