• Family : SAPOTACEAE
• Family (As per The Plant List) : Sapotaceae
• Species : Madhuca insignis
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Madhuca insignis (Radlk.) H.J.Lam
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• Key identification features : Large trees with stout branchlets. Leaves glabrous, grey above and yellowish below when dry, midrib shallowly grooved and secondary nerves 11-13 pairs. Flowers in axillary and terminal cymes, cream yellow, fragrant, corolla yellowish-brown with dense gloden-yellow hairs outside. Stamens 20, long reddish, in two series attached to the throat of the corolla tube. Ovary glabrous, 8-locular; ovule 1 per locule, style bent on upper portion, reddish. Fruit fusiform ovoid, sometimes slightly oblique, smooth shiny brown. Seeds convexly flattened, fusiform with short obliquely truncate ends, smooth.
• Habit : Tree
• Native : India
• Comments : A riparian species. Seeds are recalcitrant with a good percentage of germination in the month of may on the river bed. Most seedlings thus produced gets washed off in the flood during monsoon.
• Conservation Status : Critically Endangered (CR)
• Distribution Locality : Dakshina Kannada, Udupi
• Floras referred : Saldanha, 1984; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; Krishna kumar et al, 2004- Phytomorphology 54(3&4).

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