Herbarium JCB

Cassine glauca (Rottb.) Kuntze

Family : CELASTRACEAE
Family (As per The Plant List) : Celastraceae
Species : Cassine glauca
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Cassine glauca (Rottb.) Kuntze
Common name : Ceylon Teak
Vernacular name : Mookrike (Kan.); Jamarassi (Hin.)
Collection Nos : KFP 5075, KFP 12289
Collector(s) Name : S.R Ramesh
Key identification features : A medium to large size evergreen tree up to 25m high. Bark is often blackish or whitish-gray, exfoliating into very small dark, 4-sided scales. Leaves are simple, ovate to ovate-elliptic with entire or crenate margin. Inflorescence is axillary, dichotomously branched cyme that does not exceed the leaves. Flowers are white with a green disk and yellow anthers. Ovary is partly immersed in the disc, 2-3 locular with short style. Fruit is a drupe.
Habit : Tree
Native : Indo-Malayan
Comments : Leaf decoction a remedy for cholera.
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Collection Locality : Anekadu, Kushalnagar (Kodagu)
Distribution Locality : Bagalkot, Bangalore, Belgaum, Bellary, Bidar, Bijapur, Chamrajnagar, Chikamagalur, Chikkaballapur, Chitradurga, Dakshina Kannada, Davanagere, Dharwad, Gadag, Gulbarga, Hassan, Haveri, Kodagu, Kolar, Koppal, Mandya, Mysore, Raichur, Ramanagara, Shimoga, Tumkur, Udupi, Uttara Kannada, Yadgir
Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Saldanha, 1996; Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Bangalore; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere