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Hopea erosa
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Family:
DIPTEROCARPACEAE
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Citation: Hopea erosa (Bedd.) van Sloot., Reinwardtia 3: 318. 1956; K.P. Janardh. in B.D. Sharma & Sanjappa, Fl. India 3: 222. 1993; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 55. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Shenduruny WLS 34. 1997; K.P. Janardh. & W. Arisdason in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 363. 2005; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 141. 2009.
Balanocarpus erosa Bedd., For. Man. Bot. 237. 1873; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 84(60). 1915.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Eeyakam, Karakong
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
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Description:
Evergreen trees, to 25 m; bark 6-7 mm thick, pale brown, smooth. Leaves simple, alternate, 10-20 x 3-7 cm, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, apex acute or acuminate, base unequally cordate, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; lateral nerves 10-17 pairs, pinnate, arched, prominent, intercostae reticulate, prominent; petiole 17-50 mm, slender, glabrous, swollen tipped; stipule minute, lateral, deciduous. Flowers greyish-yellow, 1 cm across, subsessile, in unilateral, axillary racemed panicles. Calyx tube short, adnate to the torus; sepals 5, suborbicular, subequal, margin ciliate, reddish, imbricate. Petals 5, bilobed, pilose outside, glabrous inside, pinkish-white. Stamens 15, rarely 10; filaments dilated at the base; anthers short, ovate, exceeded by the apical awn. Ovary superior, glabrous, 3-celled, ovules 2 in each cell; style short; stigma thick. Fruit a nut, ovoid or oblong, apiculate, enclosed at the base by the thickened and accrescent sepals which often attain 2.5 cm long and spread horizontally.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
October-January
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District(s):
Palakkad, Kannur, Kollam, Thrissur, Wayanad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen forests
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Distribution:
Southern 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
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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:
Southern Western Ghats
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IUCN status:
Critically Endangered (CR)
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Peechi, Choondippara, Chandanathode, on way to Kannoth
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