- Family : FLACOURTIACEAE
(Flacourtia Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : CHILLA FAMILY (चिल्ला फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Salicaceae
- Basionym : Chilmoria pentandra Buch.-Ham.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Hydnocarpus pentandrus (Buch.-Ham.) Oken
- Common name : Chaulmugra
- Vernacular name :
- Turavaka (Sanskrit)
- Toratti, Chalmogra yenne mara, Mirolhakai (Kannada)
- Kadukavath, Kantel, Kastel, Kowti, Keti (Marathi)
- Kotti, Maravetti, Marotti, Neeratti, Niralam, Thamana (Malayalam)
- Habit : Tree
- Habitat : Tropical semi-evergreen forests, Tropical dry deciduous forests, Tropical moist deciduous forests, also in the plains
- Comments / notes : occurs in Western Ghats, from Goa to Kanyakumari. Elevation 40- 900m. EOO/AOO- 41286/15859 sq km.
- Key identification features : Trees, up to 26m tall, girth up to 3m. Leaves simple, alternate, serrate, elliptic-oblong, 8-20 x 4-8 cm, apex acuminate, base slightly oblique, petiole 0.7- 2.2 cm, swollen at both ends, secondary nerves 5-7 pairs. Flowers unisexual, monoecius, male in axillary cymes, female solitary. Fruit woody, spherical, up to 8 cm across, brown powdery tomentose. Can be distinguished by its slightly oblique base and petiole which is swollen at both ends.
- Flower, Fruit : March-August
- Distribution :
- Goa : South Goa district
- Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Davanagare district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district, Bengaluru district (FRLHT Campus)
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Maharashtra : Mumbai Suburban district, Kolhapur district, Ratnagiri district, Sindhudurg district
- Tamil Nadu : Tamil Nadu
- Native : India
- Exotic/Native : Native
- Endemism : Western Ghats
- World Distribution : India
- Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
- Literature :
- Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg district
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi district
- Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere district
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
- Navendu Page (2017). Endemic woody plants of the Western Ghats.
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Hydnocarpus pentandrus. Downloaded on 12 October 2024.
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