About Nilgiri Cap-Flower
Mitrephora heyneana is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to India and Sri Lanka. Joseph Dalton Hooker and Thomas Thomson, the British botanists who first formally described the species under the basionym Orophea heyneana, named it after Benjamin Heyne a German botanist who collected and described many plant species from India.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Mitrephora heyneana
- Genus
- Mitrephora
- Family
- ANNONACEAE
- Habit
- Tree
- Habitat
- Dry deciduous forests
- Native to
- India
- Distribution
- India, Sri Lanka
- Flowering & fruiting
- February-June
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Local Names
- Malayalam
- വെട്ടുലിങ്ങി
Botanical family
Annonaceae
Custard apple family
Nilgiri Cap-Flower belongs to the Annonaceae family.
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