Swietenia mahogoni (L.) Jacq.

 
  • Family : MELIACEAE
    (MAHOGANY FAMILY OR NEEM FAMILY)
  • Family (as per The Plant List) : Meliaceae
  • Species : Swietenia mahogoni
  • Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Swietenia mahagoni (L.) Jacq.
  • Common name : West Indian Mahogany, Small-leaved Mahogony
  • Vernacular name : Mahogany (Kan.); Magahani, Mahagoni (Tam.); Mahaa-goni chettu (Tel.)
  • Habit : Tree
  • Flower, Fruit : April-December
  • Comments : Often planted on hills for its valuable timber and also as an avenue tree.
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Distribution Locality : Chitteri Hills (Dharmapuri district), Ulundurpet Forest (Villupuram district) (Tamil Nadu State); Tirumala Hills, Horsley Hills (Chittoor district) (Andhra Pradesh State); Mahendragiri Hills (Ganjam district) (Odisha State)
  • World Distribution : Tropical America; Introduced elsewhere
  • Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1
  • 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=Swietenia mahogoni. Downloaded on 4 July 2024.

Description

Field Images

Comments

All fields are required






 
Creative Commons License
Digital Flora of Eastern Ghats by Herbarium JCB is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at http://easternghats.ces.iisc.ernet.in.