Herbarium JCB

Shorea tumbuggaia Roxb.

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 : Salwood tree, Green dammar
Vernacular name : Tamba Jalari (Hindi); Tamba Jalari, Tamba (Telugu); Tambagam (Tamil)
Habit : Tree
Comments / notes : Endemic to southern Eastern Ghats up to 1000m. Wood is used for construction.
Key identification features : A tall deciduous tree up to 20m. Bark dark brown, longitudinally fissured, wood brown. Branchlets tomentose, leaves ovate, coriaceous, leaf base rounded, margin entire, apex acuminate, petiole up to 5 cm long, secondary nerves 8-10 pairs. Inflorescence terminal panicle. Flowers white, fragrant, capsule yellowish, wings unequal, dark brown, spathulate, to 5 cm long.
Flower, Fruit : March-August
Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Talakona RF (Chittoor district), Nellore district (Nellore district), Kadapa district (Kadapa district), Sesachalam Hills (Kadapa district, Chittoor district), Veligonda (Kadapa district), Tirumala Hills (Chittoor district)
- Karnataka : Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Udupi district, Chamarajanagar district
- Tamil Nadu : Kanchipuram district (Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district), Tiruvannamalai district (Tiruvannamalai district), Vellore district, Dharmapuri Hills (Dharmapuri district), Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district
Native : India
Endemism : South India (Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu)
World Distribution : India
Conservation Status : Data Deficient (DD)
Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1; Sudhakar Reddy, C et al., 2009. Tree Wealth of Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh, India; Franklin Benjamin & G.V.S.Murthy, 2013. Flora of Sri Venkateswara National Park, Andhra Pradesh, BSI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.
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=Shorea tumbuggaia. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.