Herbarium JCB

Diospyros candolleana Wight

Family : EBENACEAE
Family (As per The Plant List) : Ebenaceae
Species : Diospyros candolleana
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Diospyros candolleana Wight
Common name : Quarrelsome Tree
Vernacular name : Nila viruksha (San.); Jagala ganti, Kari mara (Kan.)
Collection Nos : KFP 990, KFP 10577, KFP 1324, CJS 13260
Endemism : Western Ghats
Key identification features : A small tree. Leaves are elliptic or oblong, bluntly acuminate at apex, glabrous. Male flowers are sessile, close, in axillary fascicles, densely tawny-tomentose. Female flowers are larger than the male, sessile, in few-flowered axillary clusters. Fruit is globose, seated on the cup-shaped enlarged calyx. Seeds are 3-4. Endosperm ruminate.
Habit : Tree
Native : India
Comments : Frequent in semi-evergreen forests
Conservation Status : Vulnerable (VU)
Distribution Locality : Chikamagalur, Dakshina Kannada, Hassan, Kodagu, Shimoga, Udupi, Uttara Kannada, Dakshina Kannada
Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Saldanha, 1984; Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara