Herbarium JCB

Tectona grandis L. f.

Family : VERBENACEAE
Family (As per The Plant List) : Lamiaceae
Species : Tectona grandis
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Tectona grandis L.f.
Common name : Teak Wood Tree
Vernacular name : Shaka (San.); Sagvaan (Hin.); Saaguvaani-mara, Thega mara (Kan.)
Collection Nos : HFP 355, CJS 13427
Key identification features : A tall straight deciduous tree. Young branches are square and deeply channelled. Leaves are large, in opposite pairs with variable shapes and rough-textured. Flowers are small (less than 0.5 cm.), white, sweet-scented and borne on highly branched inflorescences. Fruit is hard and enveloped by bladder-like calyx. Bark is grey, closely furrowed, furrows parallel.
Habit : Tree
Native : South-east Asia
Comments : Often planted in social forestry programs and for its valuable timber.
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Distribution Locality : Cultivated; wildly distributed in forests
Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Bangalore; Seetharam et al., 2000 - Gulbarga; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara