Herbarium JCB

Lophopetalum wightianum Arn.

Family : CELASTRACEAE
(Staff-Tree Family)
Family (Hindi name) : MALKANGANI FAMILY (मालकांगनी फैमिली)
Family (as per The APG System III) : CELASTRACEAE
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
Common name : Spindle Tree
Vernacular name : Banale, Bel palle, Boralu palle (Kannada); Vembala, Venkadavam, Venkkotta (Malayalam); Venkittai (Tamil)
Habit : Tree
Habitat : Evergreen forests and sacred groves
Comments / notes : Rare
Key identification features : Bark smooth, greyish-brown, forms huge buttresses.
Flower, Fruit : November-July
Collection Nos : Hohenacker (Metz) 324 (K) A, KFP 4960, KFP 7079
Distribution :
- Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Dindigul district, Dharmapuri district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Karur district, Krishnagiri district, Madurai district, Namakkal district, Pudukkottai district, Sivaganga district, Salem district, Tiruchirapalli district, Tiruvannamalai district, Villipuram district, Vellore district
Native : Indo-Malayan
World Distribution : Indo-Malesia
Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Saldanha, C.J. (1996). Flora of Karnataka vol. 2. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi District; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Lophopetalum wightianum. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.