Herbarium JCB

Toona ciliata Roemer

Family : MELIACEAE
Family (As per The Plant List) : Meliaceae
Species : Toona ciliata
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Toona ciliata M.Roem.
Common name : Sandal Neem, Toon Tree, Red Cedar
Vernacular name : Nadi vruksha (San.); Toon, Toon ka ped (Hin.); Ganda garike, Kempu ganda garike (Kan.)
Collection Nos : R.R.Rao 1290, KFP 10929
Key identification features : A large handsome evergreen tree with a dense spreading crown. Bark is exfoliating. Leaves are compound, alternate, with large leaflets. Flowers are upto a cm long, fragrant and borne on large drooping terminal panicles. They are unisexual, both male and female flowers appearing on the same tree. Fruit is 2-3 cm. long, five lobed and star-like on dehiscence. Seeds are winged.
Habit : Tree
Native : India, Southeast Asia
Comments : Flowers are honey-scented. Fruit is olive-like, drying and splitting open like a star to release winged seeds.
Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
Distribution Locality : Bangalore, Dakshina Kannada, Davanagere, Hassan, Kodagu, Mysore, Shimoga, Uttara Kannada
Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Saldanha, 1996; Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere