- Family : ICACINACEAE
(Icacina Or White Pear Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : GHENERA FAMILY
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Icacinaceae
- Synonym(s) : Apodytes benthamiana Wight; Apodytes beddomei Mast.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Apodytes dimidiata E.Mey. ex Arn.
- Vernacular name :
- Kainka (Kannada), Slatematthi, Karineeli (Malayalam)
- Habit : Tree
- Habitat : Tropical evergreen forests, Tropical semi-evergreen forests, Shola
- Key identification features : A glabrous tree. Leaves alternate, ovate, elliptic, acute. Flowers 5 mm across, white, sessile or shortly pedicellate, in terminal and axillary corymbose cymes. Fruit a drupe, obliquely ovoid, compressed. Seed one
- Flower, Fruit : March-October
- Collector(s) Name : Syed Maqsood Ahamed, S.R.Ramesh, N.S.Ravindra
- Collection Nos : KFP 916, KFP 7997, KFP 11701
- Collection Locality : Kemmangundi (Chikamagalur)
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district, Udupi district
- Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Tamil Nadu : Salem district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Coimbatore district, Kanyakumari district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Tirunelveli district, Yercaud Hills, Shevaroy Hills (Salem district)
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Aldabra, Angola, Borneo, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, China, Comoros, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Hainan, India, Jawa, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesser Sunda Islands, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Maluku, Mauritius, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nigeria, Northern
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Aldabra, Angola, Borneo, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, China, Comoros, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Hainan, India, Jawa, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesser Sunda Islands, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Maluku, Mauritius, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Philippines, Rwanda, Réunion, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Swaziland, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, Vietnam, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka
- Saldanha, C. J. 1996. Flora of Karnataka vol. 2
- Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished)
- Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
- Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1
- Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
- Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Apodytes dimidiata var. acutifolia. Downloaded on 14 December 2024.
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