Herbarium JCB

Givotia rottleriformis Griffith

Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
Family (As per The Plant List) : Euphorbiaceae
Species : Givotia rottleriformis
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Givotia moluccana (L.) Sreem.
Common name : White Catamaran Tree
Vernacular name : Butti mara (Kan.)
Collection Nos : KFP 6672, KFP 7489, KFP 8962
Endemism : Central and Peninsular India
Key identification features : A moderate-sized tree with conspicuous, softly white, stellate tomentum on branchlets. Bark whitish outside, yeilds a milky latex. Leaves are simple, broadly ovate or orbicular, reaching a diameter of 10 cm. Coarsely dentate, palmately 5-7 ribbed, long-petioled and densely tomentose beneath. Flowers are unisexual and dioecious. Calyx 5, cohering into a campanulate corolla, disk in male flowers is orbicular and glandular; female flower is cup-like; stamens upto 25, fruit is a drupe.
Habit : Tree
Native : India
Comments : Wood used for carving figures, toys, and other articles; Seeds yield a valuable lubricating oil used in fine machinery.
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
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; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore