Systematic Classification: Common Name: Kambakam, Neduvalipongu, Ilapongu General Information: Trees grow up to 18 m tall. Bark thin smooth, flaky.Branchlets usually drooping, terete, tomentose.Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; stipules caducous; petiole stout, terete, whitish tomentose, 1.3 cm long; lamina 11-31 x 2.5-7.5 cm, narrow oblong to oblong, apex bluntly acute or acuminate, often rounded, base rounded […]
Systematic Classification: Common Name: Chuvanna cheeralam, Chuvanna akil General Information: Trees grow up to 25 m high, bark 4-5 mm thick, smooth, brown; blaze reddish-brown; young shoots golden brown, densely peltate scaly. Leaves imparipinnate, alternately, estipulate; rachis 25-35 cm long, stout, covered with peltate scales, swollen at base, grooved above; leaflets 7-11, alternate, estipellate; petiolule […]
Systematic Classification: Common Name: Njettipana, Kattuthengu General Information: Monoecious palm, trunk up to 6 m tall.Trunk grey, densely clothed with the black fibrous remains of the leaf sheaths.Leaves compound, pinnate, 3.5-8 m long; leaflets to 30-100 cm x 2-2.5 cm, linear ensiform, apical one often confluent and obconic, apex narrowed, sometimes shortly, unequally 2-lobed, base […]
Systematic Classification: Common Name: Valiya-vellapayin, Perumpain General Information: Trees grow upto 30 m tall. Bark grey, smooth.Exudates resinous. Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; petioles 2.5-6 cm long, swollen at apex, minutely pubescent; lamina 13-30 x 6.5-16 (40 x 20 cm), elliptic-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, apex acuminate with blunt tip, base rounded or subcordate, entire, coriaceous, glabrous or […]