Category: Interesting Facts

Cynometra travancorica Bedd.

Systematic Classification: Common Name: Koori General Information: Tall evergreen trees, buttressed, up to 30 m tall.Branchlets terete, slender, lenticellate.Leaves compound, bifoliolate, alternate, distichous, pulvinate; stipules caducous; rachis to 0.7 cm long, canaliculate; lamina 4-14 x 1.5-4.5 cm, asymmetric, falcate or lanceolate, apex gradually acuminate with blunt or retuse tip, base asymmetric, margin entire, chartaceous or […]

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Kingiodendron pinnatum (Roxb. Ex DC.) Harms

Systematic Classification: Common Name: Kulavu, Ennapain General Information: Evergreen trees, to 30 m high, bark 5-8 mm thick, surface greyish-brown with green blotches, rough; exuding a reddish sticky resin. Leaves imparipinnate, alternate; leaflets 5-9, alternate, 4.5-10.5 x 2-4.5 cm, ovate-lanceolate or oblong, apex acuminate, falcate or oblique, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; stipules minute, lateral, cauducous; […]

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Knema attenuata (HoOK. f. & Thoms.) Warb.

Systematic Classification: Common Name: Chorapali, Chorapain General Information: Trees grow up to 20 m tall.Bark brownish, usually smooth, irregulary flaky; blaze reddish.Branches verticillate and horizontal; young branchlets terete, rusty tomentose.Sap red from cut end of bark, profuse.Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; petiole 0.6-1.3 cm, stout, canaliculate, fulvous stellate tomentose when young and glabrous when mature; lamina […]

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Garcinia wightii T. Ander.

Systematic Classification: Common Name: Pulimaranga General Information: Trees up to 10 m tall.Bark brown, rough.Branchlets quadrangular with short internodes, glabrous.Latex yellow.Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; petiole 0.5-0.8 cm long, rugose, canaliculate, decurrent, slightly sheathing at base; lamina 7.5-14 × 1-3 cm, linear lanceolate, sometimes subfalcate, apex gradually acuminate, base attenuate, chartaceous; secondary nerves ca. 10 pairs, […]

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