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Dipterocarpus bourdillonii
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Family:
DIPTEROCARPACEAE
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Citation: Dipterocarpus bourdillonii Brandis in Hook., Ic. Pl. t. 25. 1895; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 81(58). 1915; K.P. Janardh. in B.D. Sharma & Sanjappa, Fl. India 3: 210. 1993; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 27. 1995; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 27. 1998; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 74. 2005; K.P. Janardh. & W. Arisdason in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 360. 2005.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Chiratta-anjili, Kalpayin, Karanjili
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Tamil name(s):
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Description:
Evergreen trees, to 40 m high, bark grey; young parts covered with dense brown tomentum. Leaves simple, alternate, 20-45 x 12-25 cm, obovate, ovate or ovate-oblong, base obtuse, apex acute or acuminate, round or subcordate, margin entire or wavy, coriaceous, glabrous above and stellate hairy beneath; lateral nerves 12-15 pairs, parallel, prominent, intercostae scalariform, faint; petiole 38-55 mm long, swollen tipped, tomentose, stout; stipules large, lateral, amplexicaul, leaving an annular scar. Flowers bisexual, white, 4-5 x 3.7 cm, 3-5 in short axillary racemes. Calyx tubular, obconical; lobes 5, linear. Petals 5, 3.5-5 cm long, pubescent, valvate. Stamens 30; filaments of variable length, broad, compressed, connate at base, tapering gradually and filiform below the anther; anthers hastate, locules subequal; connective nearly as long as the anthers, produced above. Ovary superior, 3-celled, ovules 2 in each cell; style filiform, pubescent. Fruit a nut, 2.5 cm across, globose, enclosed at the base of thickened, accrescent calyx lobes, subacute, very tuberculate below; calyx tube 5-angular, wings 5, purplish-brown.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
January-June
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District(s):
Palakkad, Idukki, Pathanamthitta, Kollam, Kannur
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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):
White, Pink
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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:
Critically Endangered (CR)
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Koruthode, Pampa, Thenmalai
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