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: Tracheophytes
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. ^ a b c "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. ^ a b 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.