Herbarium JCB

Vitex altissima L. f.

Family : VERBENACEAE
Family (As per The Plant List) : Lamiaceae
Species : Vitex altissima
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Vitex altissima L.f.
Common name : Peacock Chaste Tree, Tail Chaste Tree, Peacock's foot tree
Vernacular name : Kankola (San.); Myrole (Hin.); Naviladi, Myrolu, Bharanige (Kan.)
Collection Nos : HFP 158, HFP 595
Key identification features : A large tree of dry deciduous and semi-evergreen forests with spreading crown. Leaves are compound with three or five leaflets on winged petiole. Flowers are numerous on branched inflorescence, small and white, tinged with blue. Corolla is two-lipped and stamens 4. Fruits are small and purplish-black when ripe. Bark grey-brown and vertically fissured at regular intervals.
Habit : Tree
Native : Tropical Asia
Comments : Its winged petiole is characteristic.
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Distribution Locality : Bangalore, Chikamagalur, Dakshina Kannada, Davanagere, Hassan, Kodagu, Kolar, Mysore, Shimoga, Tumkur, Udupi, Uttara Kannada
Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri; 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; Sharma B.D, 1984 - Flora of Karnataka Analysis; N.P.Singh, 1988- Flora of Eastern Karnataka