''Anisophyllea cinnamomoides'' is a species of
plant
Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclu ...
in the family
Anisophylleaceae
The Anisophylleaceae are a small family with four genera and about 70 species, in the order Cucurbitales, according to the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, APG II. However, it is more isolated from the other suprafamilial clades in this order, while i ...
. It is
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found else ...
to
Sri Lanka.
Culture
Known as "වැලි පියන්න - weli piyanna" in Sinhala.
References
''website for botany and other details''
Flora of Sri Lanka
cinnamomoides
Vulnerable plants
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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