Hopea ponga (Dennst.) Mabb.

 
  • Family : DIPTEROCARPACEAE
    (Dipterocarpus Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : SAKHU FAMILY
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : DIPTEROCARPACEAE
  • Basionym : Artocarpus ponga Dennst.
  • Synonym(s) : Hopea wightiana Wall. ex Wight & Arn.
  • Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
  • Vernacular name : Kalmara, Hiribhogi, Karimara, Doddele Bogi (Kannada); Ilapongu (Tamil); Kalhoni, Kavsi (Marathi); Eyyakam, Illapongu, Irumbakam, Kambakam, Naduvalippongu, Naithambagam, Nayurippu, Pongu, Thingam (Malayalam)
  • Habit : Tree
  • Habitat : Evergreen and semi-Evergreen forests at elevation of 400-700 m, also in sacred groves in the plains
  • Comments / notes : Produces galls which are mistaken for fruits.
  • Key identification features : A lofty tree of Western Ghats. Leaves are simple, oblong-lanceolate, up to 23 cm long, 7.5 cm broad with a swollen petiole and yellow tomentum. Flowers are bisexual and borne on branched inflorescence. Petals are ovate-lanceolate and hairy outside. Stamens are as many as 15. Sepals are enlarged and remain persistant as wings on the fruit, greenish but turning to red when fruit matures.
  • Flower, Fruit : July-November
  • Collection Nos : KFP 11560, KFP 7194
  • Distribution :
    • Karnataka : Belagavi district, Dakshina Kannada district, Davanagare district, Hassan district, Shivamogga district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district
    • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
    • Tamil Nadu : Tirunelveli district
  • Native : India
  • Endemism : Western Ghats
  • World Distribution : India
  • Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
  • 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 Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg district; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi district; Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere 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 ponga. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

Botanical Description

Herbarium Specimen(s)

Line Drawings

Field Image(s)

Comments

All fields are required






 
Creative Commons License
Digital Flora of Peninsular India by Herbarium JCB is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ernet.in.