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Hopea glabra
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Family:
DIPTEROCARPACEAE
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Citation: Hopea glabra Wight & Arn., Prodr. 85. 1834; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 309. 1874; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1867(1292). 1936; Manilal, Fl. Silent Valley 23. 1988; K.P. Janardh. in B.D. Sharma & Sanjappa, Fl. India 3: 222. 1993; Sasidh. et al., Bot. Stud. Med. Pl. Kerala 22.1996; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 74. 2005; K.P. Janardh. & W. Arisdason in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 364. 2005.
Hopea wightiana Wall. ex Wight & Arn. var. glabra (Wight & Arn.) Bedd., Fl. Sylv. t. 96. 1871.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Irumbakam, Karimpongu, Ilapongu, Naithambagam, Puzhupongu
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Hopea
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Description:
Trees, to 20 m high, bole buttressed; bark 5-6 mm, dark brown; petiole 8-20 mm, slender, glabrous; lamina 6-10 x 2.5-4 cm, elliptic, oblong-lanceolate, base acute, obtuse or round, apex acute or acuminate, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous, lateral nerves 4-8 pairs, parallel, prominent, intercostae scalariform, prominent. Flowers bisexual, creamy yellow, 1-3 together in axillary racemose panicles; calyx glabrous, sepals 5; petals 5, puberulous outside, margin ciliate; stamens 15, slightly connate; anther orbicular, connective forms a subulate point; ovary superior, pubescent, 3-celled, ovules 2 in each cell; stylopodium puberulous; style glabrous, short, subulate. Fruit a nut, ovoid; wings 2, reddish, 7.6 x 1.9.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
January-July
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District(s):
Pathanamthitta, Palakkad, 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):
Creamy, 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:
Western Ghats
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IUCN status:
Endangered (EN)
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Silent Valley R. F., Thannithode, On the banks of Kunthipuzha, Damsite, Valiyaparathode
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