Herbarium JCB

Olea paniculata R.Br.

Family : OLEACEAE
(OLIVE FAMILY OR JASMINE FAMILY)
Family (as per The Plant List) : Oleaceae
Species : Olea paniculata
Synonym : Olea glandulifera Wall. ex G.Don
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Olea paniculata R.Br.
Vernacular name : Perumpungu, Pasumurigu (Tam.); Kunde, Naravellu, Kunthy, Kaliki chettu (Tel.)
Collection Nos : HJCB-E-25; HJCB-0636
Collector(s) Name : Arun Singh R., Karuppusamy & Tilakar M.; K.R.K.Swamy, Arun Singh R., Navendu Page & K.Sankara Rao
Collection Date : 17/06/14; 24/03/2016
Collection Locality : Sirumalai Hills, Dindigal district, Tamil Nadu State; Kolli Hills Ghat road, Namakkal district, Tamil Nadu State
Habitat : Moist deciduous forest
Key identification features : Densely foliaceous evergreen tree, 12-15 m tall. Trunk is short, crown broad. Leaves are chartaceous, rhomboid, lanceolate with two glandular-domatias present along the midrib of the leaf. Flowers are white, mildly fragrant in axillary and terminal panicles. Calyx 4-lobed, corolla rotate-campanulate, 4-lobed, valvate and spreading. Drupe is purplish black, ovoid, pendulous.
Habit : Tree
Flower, Fruit : March-August
Comments : Rare, on hills along banks of streams, in shady ravines and in sholas up to 1500 m.
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Distribution Locality : Sirumalai Hills (Dindigul district), Yelagiri Hills (Vellore district, former North Arcot), Melagiri Hills (Dharmapuri district) (Tamil Nadu State); Talakona R.F. (Chittoor district), Visakhapatnam district (Andhra Pradesh State); Mahendragiri Hills (Ganjam district) (Odisha State)
World Distribution : India, Nepal, Java, New Guinea to New Caledonia, Australia
Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; Sankar,R.V., R. Kottaimuthu & K. Ravikumar (2009). Additions to the flora of Sirumalai Hills, Eastern Ghats, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 1(7): 379-381; 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=Olea paniculata. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.