|
|
| |
Actinodaphne malabarica
|
| |
|
| |
Family:
LAURACEAE
|
| |
Citation: Actinodaphne malabarica Balakr., Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 63: 329. 1967; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 343. 1984; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 392. 1988; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 346. 1989; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 402. 1990; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 389. 1994; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 315. 1995; Sasidh. et al., Bot. Stud. Med. Pl. Kerala 23. 1996; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 379. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Shenduruny WLS 264. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 342. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 266. 2002; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 422. 2005; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 694. 2009.
Actinodaphne hirsuta Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 152. 1886, non Blume 1851; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1231(862). 1925.
|
| |
Malayalam Name(s):
Kambilivirinji, Malavirinji, Neyaram, Pattutthalli, Pukachan
|
| |
Tamil name(s):
|
| |
English name(s):
|
| |
Description:
Trees, to 18 m high, bark dark grey, smooth, lenticellate; young shoots densely fulvous tomentose. Leaves simple, subverticillate, opposite or subopposite, 7-25 x 2.5-6 cm, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, apex acuminate, base acute or attenuate, margin entire, glabrous above, villous beneath, chartaceous; lateral nerves 8-12 pairs, pinnate, slender, prominent, intercostae scalariform, obscure; petiole 7-20 mm long, stout, tomentose. Flowers unisexual, yellowish. Male flowers: in densely tomentose racemes of 2.5 cm long; bracts 10 x 7 mm, orbicular, densely silky brown tomentose; tepals 6, subequal, oblong, obtuse, silky brown tomentose; stamens 9, in 3 rows; filaments 2-galndular, densely hispid; anthers 4-celled, oblong, introrse. Female flowers: staminodes 9, in 3 rows, those of row 3 with 2-glands; ovary half inferior, ovoid, attenuate into the style; stigma dilated. Fruit a berry 7-10 mm across, globose, seated in a perianth cup, red.
|
| |
Habit:
Tree
|
| |
Flowering & Fruiting:
August-January
|
| |
District(s):
Wayanad, Palakkad, Kottayam, Idukki, Kollam, Pathanamthitta, Kannur, Thiruvananthapuram, Thrissur
|
| |
Medicinal:
|
| |
Habitat:
Evergreen and semi-evergreen forests
|
| |
Distribution:
Southern Western Ghats
|
| |
Aquatic:
No
|
| |
Epiphyte(s):
No
|
| |
Saprophyte:
No
|
| |
Stem parasite:
No
|
| |
Root parasite:
No
|
| |
Flower colour(s):
Yellow
|
| |
Weed:
No
|
| |
Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
|
| |
Exotic:
No
|
| |
Garden:
No
|
| |
Edible:
No
|
| |
Vegetable:
No
|
| |
Endemic to:
Southern Western Ghats
|
| |
IUCN status:
Vulnerable (VU)
|
| |
Altitude:
|
| |
Localities:
Sholayar, Poringal, Vazhachal, Kallar, Thekkady, Karadikkavala, Thellickal, Karimala, Pooyamkutty along river banks, Nadugani ghats, Kakki hills, Pathenthode, Brahmagiri, on way to Kannoth, Tirunalli, near Cheeyapara falls, Mukkali forests, Boneccord, Pe
|
|