Herbarium JCB

Allophylus cobbe (L.) Raeusch.

Family : SAPINDACEAE
Family (As per The Plant List) : Sapindaceae
Species : Allophylus cobbe
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Allophylus cobbe (L.)Raeusch.
Common name : Tipan
Vernacular name : Lavatepannu (Kan.)
Collection Nos : KFP 1245, HFP 309, HFP 1909, CS 18537
Collector(s) Name : S.R Ramesh; C.J.Saldanha
Key identification features : A large shrub or a small tree with dark grey or purple scaly bark. Leaves are trifoliate, leaflets shape is variable, ovate to lanceolate with tufts of hair. Flowers are small, white or yellowish-white and crowded on slender tassel-like raceme. Petals are with fringed scale above the claw. Disc is unilateral, with 4 unequal glands opposite to petals. Stamens 8, styles 2, fruit is red when ripe.
Habit : Shrub
Native : India,SriLanka, Myanmar, Malaysia North Australia(Nayar 2006),Trop. &Warm (Mabb1997)
Comments : Scattered across Ghats. A very polymorphic species which at a local level can be subdivided into about 175 apparently distinct biological species. Grows along the banks of rivers and streams
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Distribution Locality : Bellary, Chikamagalur, Dakshina Kannada, Hassan, Kodagu, Mysore, Shimoga, Tumkur, Udupi, Uttara Kannada
Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Saldanha, 1996; Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District