''Xylopia championii'' is a species of

plant Plants are the eukaryotes that form the Kingdom (biology), kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly Photosynthesis, photosynthetic. This means that they obtain their energy from sunlight, using chloroplasts derived from endosymbiosis with c ...

in the

Annonaceae The Annonaceae are a Family (biology), family of flowering plants consisting of trees, shrubs, or rarely lianas commonly known as the custard apple family or soursop family. With 108 accepted genera and about 2400 known species, it is the largest ...

family. It is endemic to the

rainforest Rainforests are forests characterized by a closed and continuous tree Canopy (biology), canopy, moisture-dependent vegetation, the presence of epiphytes and lianas and the absence of wildfire. Rainforests can be generally classified as tropi ...

understory in

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, also known historically as Ceylon, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian subcontinent, ...

. It is known as අතු කැටිය (athu ketiya) or දත් කැටිය (dath ketiya) in Sinhala.

References

* http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13880200801887989?journalCode=phb * http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-2468060 * http://hub.hku.hk/handle/10722/57160 * http://plants.jstor.org/specimen/k000574723 championii Endemic flora of Sri Lanka Vulnerable flora of Asia {{Annonaceae-stub