| |
Gyrocarpus asiaticus
|
| |
|
| |
Family:
HERNANDIACEAE
|
| |
Citation: Gyrocarpus asiaticus Willd., Sp. Pl. 4: 982. 1806; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 271. 1999; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 272. 2002.
Gyrocarpus jacquinii Roxb., Pl. Corom. t. 1. 1795 p.p.; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 461. 1878.
Gyrocarpus americanus sensu Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1242(869). 1925, non Jacq. 1763.
|
| |
Malayalam Name(s):
Thanukku
|
| |
Tamil name(s):
|
| |
English name(s):
|
| |
Description:
Deciduous trees, to 20 m high, bark silvery grey or greyish-yellow, smooth; blaze dull-yellow; leafscars prominent, shining; tender parts pubescent. Leaves simple, alternate, crowded at apex, estipulate; petiole 10-15 cm long, slender, puberulus; lamina 10-18 x 9-15 cm, broadly ovate, base truncate or subcordate, apex acute or acuminate; margin entire or some times 3-lobed, glabrous above and appressed pubescent below, chartaceous; 3-ribbed from base, palmate, lateral nerves 3-5 pairs, forked, intercostae scalariform, slender, faint. Flowers unisexual, greenish-yellow, in subterminal panicled cymes to 4 cm, tomentose; male flowers 5 mm across; tepals 4-7, to 1.5 mm, unequal, ovate, concave, pubescent; stamens 4-7, inserted at the bottom of the perianth, alternating with as many staminodes; filaments 2 mm; staminodes glandular, obtuse, flat; female flowers : 3 mm across; tepals 4-7, basally adnate to the ovary, pubescent; ovary inferior, 1-celled, ovule 1, pendulous; stigma inferior. Fruit a drupe, 1 x 0.8 cm, ovoid, pubescent, wings 2, oblanceolate; seed one.
|
| |
Habit:
Tree
|
| |
Flowering & Fruiting:
December-April
|
| |
District(s):
Palakkad, Idukki
|
| |
Medicinal:
|
| |
Habitat:
Dry deciduous forests
|
| |
Distribution:
Tropical West and East Africa, Tropical Asia, Polynesia and South America
|
| |
Aquatic:
No
|
| |
Epiphyte(s):
No
|
| |
Saprophyte:
No
|
| |
Stem parasite:
No
|
| |
Root parasite:
No
|
| |
Flower colour(s):
Yellow
|
| |
Weed:
No
|
| |
Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
|
| |
Exotic:
No
|
| |
Garden:
No
|
| |
Edible:
No
|
| |
Vegetable:
No
|
| |
Endemic to:
|
| |
IUCN status:
|
| |
Altitude:
|
| |
Localities:
Chinnar, Kuchimudi, Pandaravarai
|