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Cryptocarya wightiana
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Family:
LAURACEAE
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Citation: Cryptocarya wightiana Thw., Enum. Pl. Zeyl. 254. 1861; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 120. 1886; Gangop. & Chakrab., Journ. Econ. Tax. Bot. 26: 475. 2002; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 698. 2009.
Cryptocarya bourdillonii Gamble, Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1925: 125. 1925 & Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1218(853). 1925; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 346. 1984; Manilal, Fl. Silent Valley 235. 1988; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 404. 1990; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 381. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 346. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 269. 2002.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Kadamanpara
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
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Description:
Evergreen trees, to 18 m high; bark 10-12 mm thick, reddish-brown, lenticellate; blaze dull yellow; branchlets rusty-pubescent. Leaves simple, alternate, estipulate; petiole 10-25 mm long, stout, glabrous; lamina 6.5-20 x 2.5-10 cm, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, base subacute, obtuse, round or truncate, apex acute or acuminate, margin entire, glabrous except sometimes the midrib and nerves, whitish, glaucous beneath, coriaceous; lateral nerves 7-12 pairs, pinnate, prominent; intercostae scalariform, faint; reticulation areolate. Flowers bisexual, 3-4 mm across, yellowish, in spreading axillary brown tomentose panicles usually shorter than the leaves upto 15 cm long; pedicels short; bracts and bracteoles cauducous; perianth cupular at base, ultimately narrowed at the top; lobes 6, subequal, in 2 rows, ovate, tomentose; stamens 9 perfect, those of the 2 outer series with eglandular filaments and introrse anthers, those of the third series with 2 glandular filaments and extrorse anthers; those of the fourth series replaced by 3 stipitate staminodes; filaments pubescent; anthers 2-celled; connective often produced; ovary sessile, half inferior, glabrous, enclosed in the tube; style short, exserted; stigma truncate. Fruit a drupe 10-15 mm across, globose with an obtuse beak, glabrous, black, enclosed in accrescent perianth-tube; pericarp more or les free from the perianth tube, smooth.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
March-August
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District(s):
Palakkad, Kollam, Idukki, Thrissur, Wayanad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen and semi-evergreen forests
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Distribution:
South Asia
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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
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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:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Peechi, Vazhani, Koruthode, Arjunankotta, Karimala, Campshed area, Orange Fam area-Kaikatty, Singampara-Siruvani forests
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