Sloanea sterculiacea (Benth.) Rehder & E.H. Wilson

 
  • Family : ELAEOCARPACEAE
    (ELAEOCARPUS FAMILY or RUDRAKSH FAMILY)
  • Family (as per The Plant List) : Elaeocarpaceae
  • Species : Sloanea sterculiacea
  • Basionym : Echinocarpus sterculiaceus Benth.
  • Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Sloanea sterculiacea (Benth.) Rehder & E.H. Wilson
  • Key identification features : Deciduous trees, to 20 m high; bark smooth, brown, puberulous. Leaves elliptic to oblong-oblanceolate, cunate at base, acuminate at apex, glabrous. Inflorescence a fascicled in leafless parts. Flowers greenish yellow. Capsules ovoid to globose with stiff spines. Seeds 4, black, shiny, aril orange-yellow
  • Habit : Tree
  • Flower, Fruit : September-May
  • Comments : Rare in moist deciduous forests, above 1000 m in northern Eastern Ghats.
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Distribution Locality : Minumuluru forest (Visakhapatnam district) (Andhra Pradesh State)
  • World Distribution : India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar
  • Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1; Ravikumar & Balachandran-2014, Journal of Threatened Taxa 6(8).; Naidu, M.T. & O.A. Kumar (2015). Tree species diversity in the Eastern Ghats of northern Andhra Pradesh, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 7(8): 7443-7459
  • 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=Sloanea sterculiacea. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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