Herbarium JCB

Aporosa lindleyana (Wight) Baill.

Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
Family (As per The Plant List) : Euphorbiaceae
Species : Aporosa lindleyana
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Aporosa cardiosperma (Gaertn.) Merr.
Vernacular name : Valaka (San.); Sarole mara, Salle gida (Kan.)
Collection Nos : HFP 1371, CJS 15835, CJS 16877, CS 33
Collector(s) Name : T.P.Ramamoorthy
Key identification features : An evergreen tree growing up to 15 m. tall. Leaves are simple up to 15 cm long, 6 cm broad, oblong elliptic, flowers minute, dioecious, male flowers occur in catkin like spikes, female flowers are in short racemes. Calyx is 4 lobed, petals are absent, stamens3-4 with capillary filament didynamous, stigma bifid capsule globose bursting irregularly. Used in construction of houses especially rafters. The fruit is said to be edible. (Mandal & Panigrahi 1984). Common in Ghats in wet deciduous or semi-evergreen forests.
Habit : Tree
Native : India, SriLanka
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Collection Locality : Stream before Devarunde (Hassan)
Distribution Locality : Belgaum, Chikamagalur, Dakshina Kannada, Hassan, Kodagu, Shimoga, Tumkur, Uttara Kannada
Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg