Diospyros candolleana Wight

 
  • Family : EBENACEAE
    (EBONY FAMILY)
  • Family (as per The Plant List) : Ebenaceae
  • Species : Diospyros candolleana
  • Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Diospyros candolleana Wight
  • Common name : Quarrelsome Tree
  • Vernacular name : Jagala ganti, Kari mara (Kan.); Nila viruksha (San.)
  • Endemism : Peninsular India
  • Key identification features : A small tree. Leaves are elliptic or oblong, bluntly acuminate at apex, glabrous. Male flowers are sessile, close, in axillary fascicles, densely tawny-tomentose. Female flowers are larger than the male, sessile, in few-flowered axillary clusters. Fruit is globose, seated on the cup-shaped enlarged calyx. Seeds are 3-4. Endosperm ruminate.
  • Habit : Tree
  • Flower, Fruit : February-March
  • Native : India
  • Comments : Rare in evergreen forests to 1500 m.
  • Conservation Status : Vulnerable (V)
  • Distribution Locality : Galikonda Hills (Visakhapatnam district) (Andhra Pradesh State); Mahendragiri Hills (Ganjam district) (Odisha State)
  • World Distribution : India
  • Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 3.1, 2015.
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Arun Singh R., Deepak Kumar, Raja K Swamy and Navendu Page (2016). Digital Flora of Eastern Ghats. http://easternghats.ces.iisc.ernet.in/plants.php?name=Diospyros candolleana. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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