• Family : CLUSIACEAE
  (Garcinia Or Kokam Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : KOKAM FAMILY (कोकम फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : CALOPHYLLACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Calophyllum elatum Bedd.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
• Common name : The Poon-spar, Poon Tree, Sirpoon tree
• Vernacular name : Salhonne (Kannada); Kattu pinnai (Tamil); Malampunna, Kattupunna, Punna, Pinnapai, Punnappine (Malayalam); Poon (Marathi)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : A tall lofty handsome tree. Wood used in ship masts.
• Key identification features : Tree with Buttressed trunk, unbranched to a great height. Bark deeply fissured, yellowish-brown, not flaking, blaze red with white streaks, small buttress. Flowers in panicles, white fragrant in lax panicles. Latex watery turning yellow.
• Flower, Fruit : June-September
• Collection Nos : DD 33622 teste Stevens, BSI (S.C.) 3083; KFP 587, KFP 7018, KFP 10942
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Uttara Kannada district, Chikkamagaluru district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, The Nilgiri district, Tirunelveli district
• Native : India, China, Malaysia
• World Distribution : Indo-Malesia, China
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Sharma B.D, 1984 - Flora of Karnataka Analysis; Henry, Kumari & Chithra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=Calophyllum polyanthum. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

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