Herbarium JCB

Melia dubia Cav.

Family : MELIACEAE
Family (As per The Plant List) : Meliaceae
Species : Melia dubia
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Melia azedarach L.
Common name : China Berry, Great Neem Tree
Vernacular name : Bettada bevu mara, Arabevu mara (Kan.)
Collection Nos : KFP 221, KFP 6655
Key identification features : A large deciduous tree. Leaves are compound with toothed leaflets. Flowers are small, greenish-yellow in much-branched inflorescences. Fruits are green, ellipsoidal with a single seed covered by hard portion (as in a mango fruit) and surrounded by fleshy pulp outside. Bark is grey, longitudinally fissured and flaky.
Habit : Tree
Native : India, Tropical Asia, Angola, Australia
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Distribution Locality : Bangalore, Dakshina Kannada, Davanagere, Gulbarga, Hassan, Kodagu, Mysore
Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Saldanha, 1996; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Bangalore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere