Herbarium JCB

Bridelia crenulata Roxb.

Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
Family (As per The Plant List) : Euphorbiaceae
Species : Bridelia crenulata
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Bridelia retusa (L.) A.Juss.
Collection Nos : KFP 1204, HJCB-0172
Collector(s) Name : S.R Ramesh; Raja K. Swamy & Arun Singh
Key identification features : A shrub or a medium-sized deciduous tree up to 18 m. high.Young trees are armed with strong conical thorns. Bark is grey to dark brown with longitudinal cracks. Leaves are simple, elliptic-oblong, brown pubescent on the lower surface; lateral nerves 18-25 pairs usually forked near the margin. Flowers are borne in clusters on an elongated spike: Petals are 5, clawed, cucullate and dentate in male and with a corona in female. Stamens are borne on a gynophore. Styles 2, stigma bifid. Fruit is a 1-seeded pyrene.
Habit : Tree
Native : South-east Asia
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Collection Locality : Hunsur-Periyapatna road (Mysore); Nagpuri betta, Hassan district
Distribution Locality : Chikamagalur, Dakshina Kannada, Davanagere, Gulbarga, Hassan, Kodagu, Mysore, Tumkur, Udupi
Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Saldanha, 1996; Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere