• Family : DIPTEROCARPACEAE
  (Dipterocarpus Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : SAKHU FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : DIPTEROCARPACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Dipterocarpus bourdillonii Brandis
• Vernacular name : Chiratta-anjili, Kalpayin, Karanjili (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : A large low-elevation evergreen tree about 150 ft. height, apparently endemic to the Western Ghats, and occurring mostly in Kerala, with a few numbers extending into Karnataka and Tamil Nadu; elevation 40-250 m.
• Key identification features : Tube of fruiting calyx 5-winged; leaf nerves below, looped, connected by transverse reticulation and young shoots clothed with spreading tomentum
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Kodagu (Coorg) district
  • Kerala : Palakkad district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Endangered (EN)
• Literature : Gamble J.S, 1935- Fl. Of the Pres. Of Madras, Vol.1; Hooker's Icon. Pl. 25: t. 2403 1895; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Navendu Page (2017). Endemic woody plants of the Western Ghats.
• 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=Dipterocarpus bourdillonii. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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