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Hopea utilis
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Family:
DIPTEROCARPACEAE
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Citation: Hopea utilis (Bedd.) Bole, Kew Bull. 1951: 146. 1951; K.P. Janardh. in B.D. Sharma & Sanjappa, Fl. India 3:234.1993; Gopalan & Henry, Endemic Pl. Agasthiyamala 250. 2000; K.P. Janardh. & W. Arisdason in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 367. 2005.
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Malayalam Name(s):
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Black kongu
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Description:
Trees, to 25 m high, bark surface dark brown, mottled with grey, smooth; young shoots pubescent. Leaves simple, alternate; stipules lateral, cauducous; petiole 10-12 mm long, stout, glabrous; lamina 9-24 x 2.5-10 cm, linear-lanceolate, ovate-lanceolate or oblong-ovate, base round or acute, apex acute, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; lateral nerves 10-12 pairs, pinnate, prominent; intercostae scalariform, faint. Flowers bisexual, yellowish-white, 6-8 mm long, in unilateral axillary, panicled racemes; pedicels short; calyx tube very short, adnate to the receptacle; lobes 5, slightly connate at base, hoary outside, 2 outer ones slightly longer, ovate, more or less obtuse, thickened, 3 inner suborbicular, often mucronate, thin along the margin; petals 5, oblong, obtuse, crenulate, fleshy, pubescent, imbricate; stamens 15; filaments dilated at base, subulate, anthers suborbicular, extended by the apicular awn; ovary superior, pubescent, 3-celled, ovules 2 in each cell; style short, cylindric; stigmas thick. Fruit a nut 10-12 mm across, globose, pointed, shining, with tuberculate, subacute, accrescent calyx lobes.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
March-November
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District(s):
Palakkad, Kollam
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Along riverbanks in evergreen and semi-evergreen forests
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Distribution:
Southern 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):
Yellow, White
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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:
Southern Western Ghats
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IUCN status:
Endangered (EN)
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Altitude:
200-800
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Localities:
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