Herbarium JCB

Hopea parviflora Bedd.

Family : DIPTEROCARPACEAE
(Dipterocarpus Family)
Family (Hindi name) : SAKHU FAMILY
Family (as per The APG System III) : DIPTEROCARPACEAE
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
Common name : Iron wood of Malabar, White Kongu, Hopea
Vernacular name : Kiral bogi, Bovu mara, Sannele Bogi (Kannada); Pongu (Tamil); Irumbagam, Iripu, Kambagam, Thambagam, Urippu (Malayalam)
Habit : Tree
Habitat : Evergreen and semi-Evergreen forests, also in sacred groves in the plains
Comments / notes : Low and mid elevations of evergreen forests in Central and southern Western ghats, often gregarious along rivers; elevation 50- 1000 m.
Flower, Fruit : January-June
Collection Nos : KFP 11373, KFP 12244, KFP 7106
Distribution :
- Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Shivamogga district, Chikkamagaluru district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Udupi district
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Tirunelveli district
Native : India
Endemism : Western Ghats
World Distribution : India
Conservation Status : Near Threatened (NT)
Literature : Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnatka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg district; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi district; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; 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=Hopea parviflora. Downloaded on 3 April 2025.