Herbarium JCB

Mesua ferrea L.

Family : CLUSIACEAE
Family (As per The Plant List) : Clusiaceae
Species : Mesua ferrea
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Mesua ferrea L.
Common name : Ceylon Iron-Wood
Vernacular name : Nagakesara (San.); Nagasampige (Kan.)
Collection Nos : HFP 1659, HFP 1448
Key identification features : A small evergreen tree with straight trunk and smooth bark. Leaves are simple, opposite and are red when young. Flowers are large, 8-12 cm. across; sepals and petals are four in each whorl. Stamens are numerous. Fruits are 3 cm. across, ovoid, pointed, woody with enlarged calyx. Bark dull-brown, faintly fissured.
Habit : Tree
Native : Sri Lanka
Comments : The new leaves emerge astonishingly bright red, turn pink and then pale green before darkening.
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Distribution Locality : Dakshina Kannada, Hassan, Kodagu, Udupi
Floras referred : Saldanha, 1984; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi

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Dr. M.R. Gurudeva 2018-02-18 08:54:22
As per plant list this plant must be in the Family CALLOPHYLLACEAE
GURUMURTHI HEGDE 2014-09-23 10:47:28
Celastrus paniculatus Willd. subsp. aggregatus K.T. Mathew has been reported from Kumta, UttaraKannada district in 2011.This collection of subsp. aggregatus from central Western Ghats is an addition to the flora of Karnataka State and also connects the distribution link of this taxon between southern and northern Western Ghats Ref: Hegde, Gurumurthi R. & G. R. Hegde 2011. Report on the extended distribution of two endemic plants (Angiospermae) in the central Western Ghats of Karnataka, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 3(4): 1731– 1734.