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Diospyros pruriens
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Family:
EBENACEAE
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Citation: Diospyros pruriens Dalz. in Hook.'s J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 4: 110. 1852; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 3: 553. 1882; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 774(544). 1923; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 222. 1985; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 265. 1988; Manilal, Fl. Silent Valley 168. 1988; Sasidh. et al., Bot. Stud. Med. Pl. Kerala 22,30. 1996; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 400. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 232. 1998; V. Singh, Monogr. Indian Diospyros 207. 2005; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 501. 2009.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Illakkatta, Paikkettu
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
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Description:
Dioecious trees, to 10 m high, bark black, scurfy scaly; branchlets densely hirsute-pubescent. Leaves simple, alternate, 6-16 x 2-5 cm, elliptic or elliptic-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, apex acute or obtusely acuminate, base round or subcordate, margin entire, fulvous-hirsute, often glabrescent above except midrib, membranous; petiole 3-5 mm long, stout, hirsute; lateral nerves 7-12 pairs, pinnate, slender, prominent, secondary laterals present, intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers unisexual, yellowish-white. Male flowers: 1-2 flowered axillary cymes, close together in the upper axils; pedicels articulated at base; bracts small, ovate, cauducous, glabrous inside; calyx 6.35 mm long, divided nearly to the base, fulvous hairy, lobes 4, linear-oblong; corolla 12.7-19.05 mm long, silky hairy outside; lobes 4, ovate-oblong, obtuse, about as long as the tube; stamens 12-14, unequal, glabrous, connate at the base, shorter than the corolla tube; anthers as long as the filaments; pistillode densely hairy. Female flowers: solitary, crowded in the upper axils; calyx 6.35 mm long, 4 partite; lobes oblong, spreading, hairy; corolla 9.52-12.7 mm long, 4-fid, constricted about the middle; staminodes 4, small; ovary superior, fulvous-hairy, 4-celled, ovule 1 in each cell; style 2, short, almost concealed by the hairs on the ovary, bifid at the apex. Fruit a berry 2.5 cm long, ovoid-conical, clothed with yellow stinging hairs, supported by the persistent, deflexed, slightly enlarged calyx lobes; endosperm equable.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
March-August
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District(s):
Kasaragode, Idukki, Malappuram, Kannur, Palakkad, Wayanad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen forests
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Distribution:
Western Ghats
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
Creamy, Yellow
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
No
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
Western Ghats
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Koruthode, Pamba, Walayar, Damsite, Chandanathode, Teerthundamala, Bela, Beemanadi, Karuvarakundu
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