Herbarium JCB

Schleichera oleosa (Lour.) Oken

Family : SAPINDACEAE
Family (As per The Plant List) : Sapindaceae
Species : Schleichera oleosa
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Schleichera oleosa (Lour.) Merr.
Common name : Ceylon Oak, Macassar-Oil Tree
Vernacular name : Mookulakah (San.); Kusum, Kausum (Hin.); Chendaalakota, Kendala, Sagade (Kan.)
Collection Nos : KFP 6277, KFP 7754, KFP 7872
Key identification features : A moderate-sized deciduous tree. Leaves are large, compound with oblong leaflets, sessile, broader at the apex, which are reddish when young and dark green when mature. Flowers are small in panicles at the nodes. Sepals are 5, yellowish. Fruit is grape or olive-shaped with a pointed beak, up to 3 cm. long, slightly prickly. Aril is edible. Bark is pale brown with irregularly cracked appearance.
Habit : Tree
Native : India
Comments : The new leaves which emerge are bright scarlet that makes this tree distinctive; a good host tree for Lac cultivation.
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Distribution Locality : Belgaum, Bellary, Chikamagalur, Dakshina Kannada, Dharwad, 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