• Family : MELIACEAE
  (MAHOGANY FAMILY OR NEEM FAMILY)
• Family (as per The Plant List) : Meliaceae
• Species : Chukrasia tabularis
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Chukrasia tabularis A.Juss.
• Common name : Indian Redwood, Chittagong wood Tree
• Vernacular name : Chikrasi (Hin.); Dalmara, Kalgarike (Kan.); Vedivembu (Tam.); Madagari-vemble, Erra pagada, Chittagangukarra, Konda vepa (Tel.)
• Key identification features : A large deciduous tree with lenticellate branches. Bark grey-brown, rough with age and lenticeled. Leaves are pinnately compound with 5-8 pairs of leaflets, which are ovate, acute with unequal halves of the lamina. Flowers are small (2-2.2 cm), fragrant, in many-flowered panicles. Calyx is five-toothed. Stamens are united into a 10-toothed, cylindrical hollow tube. Fruit is an ovoid capsule (4-6 cm) and with winged seeds.
• Habit : Tree
• Flower, Fruit : April-September
• Comments : On hills above 500 m in mixed deciduous forests. Wood is a valuable timber.
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Distribution Locality : Bellary district (Karnataka State); Visakhapatnam district, Kadapa district, Chittoor district (Andhra Pradesh State) Shevaroy Hills (Salem district) (Tamil Nadu State); Cuttack district (Odisha State)
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Myanmar, China, Malay Peninsula
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983.
• 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=Chukrasia tabularis. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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