Herbarium JCB

Gardenia resinifera Roth

Family : RUBIACEAE
Family (As per The Plant List) : Rubiaceae
Species : Gardenia resinifera
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Gardenia resinifera Roth
Common name : Brilliant Gardenia
Collection Nos : CJS 10674, CJS 16572, KFP 10119
Key identification features : A shrub or a small tree with yellow resin. Leaves are simple, obovate, up to 6 cm long and 3 cm broad, nerves are about 10-20 pairs, nervules parallel. Flowers are conspicuous, corolla with a long tube and spreading limbs, corolla is yellow with age. Fruit is an elliptic berry.
Habit : Tree
Native : India, Burma
Comments : Wood used for turnery and combs. Leaf-buds yeilds a resin which is medicinal.
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Distribution Locality : Belgaum, Bellary, Bidar, Chikamagalur, Davanagere, Gulbarga, Hassan, Kodagu, Uttara Kannada
Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri; Seetharam et al., 2000 - Gulbarga; N.P.Singh, 1988- Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere