Actinodaphne lanata Meisn. (1864:219)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Iozoste lanata Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 570 (1891)
Conservation Status
Last record: May 1889 (Nayar & Sastry, 1988:138 [as 1889]; WCMC, 1998 [as 1889]; Robi et al., 2017:120)
Rediscovered on: 12 October 2012 (Robi et al., 2017:120)
IUCN RedList status: Vulnerable
Distribution & Habitat
Nilgiri Hills of Kerala & Tamil Nadu, India
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Meisner, C. F. (1864). Lauraceae In: A. de Candolle (Ed.), Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis. Vol. 15, Part 1. Masson, Paris, pp. 1-260.
Other references:
de Kok, R. (2022). Actinodaphne lanata. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022: e.T31223A138500077. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-1.RLTS.T31223A138500077.en. Accessed on 18 July 2025.
Govaerts, R. (1995). World Checklist of Seed Plants 1(1, 2): 1-483, 529. MIM, Deurne.
Nayar, M. P. and Sastry, A. R. K. (compilers). (1988, reprinted 2000). Red Data Book of Indian Plants. Volume 2. Calcutta: Botanical Survey of India. 268 pp. [p. 138-139]
Oldfield, Sara, Lusty, Charlotte and MacKinven, Amy (compilers). (1998). The World List of Threatened Trees. Cambridge, U.K.: World Conservation Press. 650 pp.
POWO. (2025). Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 19 July 2025]
Ramesh, B. R. and Pascal, J. P. (1997). Atlas of endemics of the Western Ghats (India). Distribution of tree species in the evergreen and semi-evergreen forests. Institut Franais de Pondichry.
Rao, C. Kameswara, Geetha, B. L. and Suresh, Geetha. (2003). Red List of Threatened Vascular Plant Species in India: Compiled from the 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. ENVIS Centre on Floral Diversity, Botanical Survey of India, Kolkata. xxiv + 144 pp. [automatic download]
Robi, A. J. (2014). Lauraceae of Southern India. Department of Botany, Kannur University.
Robi, A. J., Anilkumar, K. A. and Udayan, P. S. (2017). Lectotypification of Actinodaphne lanata Meisn. (Lauraceae) and Notes on its occurrence in the Western Ghats, India. India Bangladesh Journal of Plant Taxonomy 24(1): 119-123.
WCMC (World Conservation Monitoring Centre). (1998). Actinodaphne lanata. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1998: e.T31223A9616791. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.1998.RLTS.T31223A9616791.en. Accessed on 19 July 2025.