Herbarium JCB

Kydia calycina Roxb.

Family : MALVACEAE
Family (As per The Plant List) : Malvaceae
Species : Kydia calycina
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Kydia calycina Roxb.
Common name : Roxbourgh's Kydia
Vernacular name : Bellaka, Naayibende mara (Kan.)
Collection Nos : HFP 1252, KFP 3642
Key identification features : Moderate-sized deciduous trees upto 15 m tall. Leaves are ovate-rounded, with sub-cordate base, apex is obtuse or rounded, 5-9 nerved. Galls are often present on leaf. Flowers are whitish-cream in axillary or terminal panicles, polygamous. Calyx is cup-shape, ovate-acute. Corolla white, longer than the calyx but shorter than the epicalyx. Seeds are brown and glabrous.
Habit : Tree
Native : Indian sub-continent
Comments : Elephants are fond of the bark.
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Distribution Locality : Belgaum, Bellary, Chikamagalur, Chitradurga, Dakshina Kannada, Davanagere, Hassan, Kodagu, Mysore, Shimoga, Tumkur, Uttara Kannada
Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Saldanha, 1984; Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere