Herbarium JCB

Careya arborea Roxb.

Family : LECYTHIDACEAE
Family (As per The Plant List) : Lecythidaceae
Species : Careya arborea
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Careya arborea Roxb.
Common name : Ceylon oak, Wild Guava, Kumbi Tree
Vernacular name : Kumbhi (San.); Kumbi (Hin.); Daddaala mara, Kavalu mara (Kan.)
Collection Nos : KFP 1023, KFP 19010, CJS 18410
Collector(s) Name : Syed Maqsood Ahamed, S.R.Ramesh & N.S.Ravindra
Key identification features : A small deciduous tree with exfoliating bark. Leaves are simple, obovate and upto 30cm long, 15 cm broad with crenate-dentate margin. Inflorescence is a few flowered spike. Flowers are yellowish-white. Stamens are many and filaments are subulate. Disk central and intra-staminal, ovary inferior. Fruit is a globose berry.
Habit : Tree
Native : India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Afganisthan, Myanmar, Malaysia
Comments : Leaves used for silkworm. Flowers and fruits are foetid.
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Collection Locality : Koppa-N.R.Pur (Chikmagalur)
Distribution Locality : Bangalore, Bellary, Chikamagalur, Chitradurga, Davanagere, Hassan, Kodagu, Mysore, Tumkur, Dakshina Kannada, Udupi
Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Saldanha, 1984; Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District; N.P.Singh, 1988- Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere