- Family : ANNONACEAE
(Custard-Apple Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : SITAPHAL FAMILY (सीताफल फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Annonaceae
- Synonym(s) : Saccopetalum tomentosum Hook.f. & Thomson
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Miliusa tomentosa (Roxb.) Finet & Gagnep.
- Vernacular name :
- Kirua (Hindi)
- Chilkadudi, Barre duduga, Budda duduga (Telugu)
- Patmosso, Gandha palasa, Gonda palasu (Oria)
- Kanakaitha, Kaithamavu, Thavidi (Malayalam)
- Hoom, Humb, Minmara, Thoska (Marathi)
- Habit : Tree
- Habitat : Tropical dry deciduous forests, Tropical moist deciduous forests
- Comments / notes : Occasional. Leaves and seeds are used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (Franklin & Murthy, 2013).
- Flower, Fruit : February-October
- Collector(s) Name : Raghavendra Rao; K.P.Sreenath, S.B.Manohar
- Collection Date : 05-03-1972, 19-03-1979
- Collection Nos : KFP 1868, KFP 6329
- Collection Locality : Kakanakote, Mysuru district; Nagarhole reserve forest, Kodagu district
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Lambasingi (Vishakapatnam district), Maredumilli Hills (East Godavari district), Nallamalai Hills (Kurnool district), Tirumala Hills (Chittoor district)
- Karnataka : Belagavi district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district, Chamarajanagar district, Chikkamagaluru district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Tumakuru district
- Kerala : Kasaragod district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kollam district
- Odisha : Sambalpur district, Angul district, Puri district
- Tamil Nadu : Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Coimbatore district, Dharmapuri district, Madurai district, Tirunelveli district, Salem district, Villipuram district, Cuddalore district
- Jharkhand :
- Madhya Pradesh : Madhya Pradesh
- Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
- Native : Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1
- R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District
- R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District
- Franklin Benjamin & G.V.S.Murthy, 2013. Flora of Sri Venkateswara National Park, Andhra Pradesh, BSI
- Naidu, M.T. & O.A. Kumar 2015. Tree species diversity in the Eastern Ghats of Northern Andhra Pradesh, India. JoTT 7 (8): 7443-7459
- Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
- Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnatka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi
- Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore
- Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state
- Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara.
- Indigenous Plants at Biodiversity Park, Ranchi - Ranchi Afforestation Division, Forest and Environmental Department, Jharkhand
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Miliusa tomentosa. Downloaded on 16 October 2024.
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