Nothopegia is a genus of plants in the family Anacardiaceae, native to India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka.[1] Out of 11 species only 8 are reported to occur in India.[2] This genus is characterised by small deciduous trees with simple leaves, racemose inflorescence, unisexual tetramerous flowers and drupaceaous fruits [3] Except Nothopegia heyneana (Hook. f.) Gamble, all other species are restricted to the Western Ghats and SW India.[3]

Nothopegia
Nothopegia beddomei fruits
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Embryophytes
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Spermatophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Sapindales
Family: Anacardiaceae
Subfamily: Anacardioideae
Genus: Nothopegia
Blume (1850)
Synonyms[1]

Glycicarpus Dalzell (1849)

Species include:[1]

References

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  1. 1 2 3 "Nothopegia Blume". Plants of the World Online. The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. n.d. Retrieved June 1, 2020.
  2. Chandra D, Mukerjee SK (2000). Flora of India (PDF). Vol. 5. Kolkata: Botanical Survey of India. pp. 470–478.
  3. 1 2 Prabhat Kumar Das; Tirthabrata Sahoo; Samarendra Narayan Mallick; Pratap Chandra Panda (2021). "First record of occurrence of the tree species Nothopegia racemosa (Dalz.) Ramamurthy (Anacardiaceae) from Eastern Ghats of India". International Journal of Botany Studies. 6 (6): 944–946. ISSN 2455-541X via ResearchGate.