Flowering class: Dicot
Habit: Tree
Symplocos cochinchinensis ssp. laurina
🗒 Synonyms
synonym | Myrtus laurina Retz. |
synonym | Symplocos cochinchinensis (Lour.) Moore subsp. laurina (Retz.) Nooteb. |
synonym | Symplocos spicata Roxb. |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
Evergreen trees, to 15 m high, bark light grey, thin, smooth; blaze creamy white. Leaves simple, alternate, estipulate; petiole 6-15 mm, slender, glabrous, grooved above; lamina 5.5-15 x 2.5-6 cm, elliptic, elliptic-lanceolate or elliptic-oblong, base acute to attenuate, apex acute or acuminate, margin crenate-serrate, revolute, glabrous, yellow when dry, coriaceous or chartaceous; lateral nerves 7-8 pairs, pinnate, slender, glabrous; intercostae reticulate, faint. Flowers bisexual, white, in axillary simple or branched spikes, 7 cm long, pubescent; bracts solitary at the base of each pedicel; bracteoles early cauducous; calyx tube adnate to the ovary, lobes 5, minute, lobes 1 mm, triangular; corolla 1 cm across, lobes 5, ovate, 3 mm, recurved; stamens many, equal, arranged in 5 group; ovary 1 mm, inferior, globose 2-3-celled, ovules 2 in each cell, pendulous from the inner angle; style 5 mm, simple; stigma capitate. Fruit a drupe, 8 mm across, glabrous, ampulliform, globose ribbed, purple crowned by calyx lobes; seeds 1-3, oblong.
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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Habit: Tree
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Miscellaneous Details
Notes: Western Ghats & Eastern Ghats, Moist Deciduous to Evergreen Forests
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Evergreen, semi-evergreen and shola forests
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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Description
Global Distribution
Indo-Malesia and China
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: All Districts
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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Maharashtra: Kolhapur, Pune, Raigad, Ratnagiri, Satara, Sindhudurg
Karnataka: Belgaum, Chikmagalur, Coorg, Hassan, Mysore, N. Kanara, Shimoga, S. Kanara
Kerala: All districts
Tamil Nadu: Coimbatore, Dindigul, Kanniyakumari, Salem, Theni, Tirunelveli
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Occurrence
No Data
📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
📚 Information Listing
References
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. II, 1987
- Symplocos spicata Roxb. var. malasica Clarke in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 3: 573. 1882.
- Symplocos cochinchinensis (Lour.) Moore ssp. laurina (Retz.) Nooteb., Rev. Symplocac. 156. 1975 & in Dassan & Fosb., Rev. Handb. Fl. Ceylon 3: 458. 1981; Manilal, Fl. Silent Valley 169. 1988; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 266. 1988; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 234. 1989; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 271. 1990; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 281. 1994; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 209. 1995; Sasidh. et al., Bot. Stud. Med. Pl. Kerala 33, 38; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 272. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Shenduruny WLS 195. 1997; Swarup. et al., Shola For. Kerala 72. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 233. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 183. 1999; Ravikumar & Ved, Illustr. Field Guide 100 Red Listed Med. Pl. 359. 2000 Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 183. 2002; Mohanan & Sivad., Fl. Agasthyamala 419. 2002; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 300. 2005; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 412. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 503. 2009.
- Symplocos spicata Roxb., Fl. Ind. 2: 542. 1832; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 3: 573. 1882.
- Drupatris cochinchinensis Lour., Fl. Cochinch. 314. 1790.
- Myrtus laurina Retz., Obs. Bot. 4: 26. 1786.
- Symplocos laurina (Retz.) Wall. ex G. Don, Gen. Hist. 4: 3. 1837-1838.
- Symplocos spicata Roxb. var. attenuata (A.DC.) Clarke in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 3: 573. 1882.
- Symplocos spicata Roxb. var. laurina (Retz.) Clarke in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 3: 573. 1882; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 782(549). 1921.
Information Listing > References
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. II, 1987
- Symplocos spicata Roxb. var. malasica Clarke in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 3: 573. 1882.
- Symplocos cochinchinensis (Lour.) Moore ssp. laurina (Retz.) Nooteb., Rev. Symplocac. 156. 1975 & in Dassan & Fosb., Rev. Handb. Fl. Ceylon 3: 458. 1981; Manilal, Fl. Silent Valley 169. 1988; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 266. 1988; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 234. 1989; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 271. 1990; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 281. 1994; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 209. 1995; Sasidh. et al., Bot. Stud. Med. Pl. Kerala 33, 38; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 272. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Shenduruny WLS 195. 1997; Swarup. et al., Shola For. Kerala 72. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 233. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 183. 1999; Ravikumar & Ved, Illustr. Field Guide 100 Red Listed Med. Pl. 359. 2000 Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 183. 2002; Mohanan & Sivad., Fl. Agasthyamala 419. 2002; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 300. 2005; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 412. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 503. 2009.
- Symplocos spicata Roxb., Fl. Ind. 2: 542. 1832; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 3: 573. 1882.
- Drupatris cochinchinensis Lour., Fl. Cochinch. 314. 1790.
- Myrtus laurina Retz., Obs. Bot. 4: 26. 1786.
- Symplocos laurina (Retz.) Wall. ex G. Don, Gen. Hist. 4: 3. 1837-1838.
- Symplocos spicata Roxb. var. attenuata (A.DC.) Clarke in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 3: 573. 1882.
- Symplocos spicata Roxb. var. laurina (Retz.) Clarke in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 3: 573. 1882; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 782(549). 1921.
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🐾 Taxonomy
Root | Root |
Kingdom | Plantae |
Phylum | Tracheophyta |
Class | Equisetopsida C. Agardh |
Order | Ericales Bercht. & J. Presl |
Family | Symplocaceae |
Genus | Symplocos |
Species | Not assigned |
Infraspecies | Symplocos cochinchinensis ssp. laurina |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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