Herbarium JCB

Diospyros bourdillonii Brandis

Family : EBENACEAE
(Ebony Family)
Family (Hindi name) : BISTENDU FAMILY (बिसतॆंदु फैमिली)
Family (as per The APG System III) : EBENACEAE
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Diospyros bourdillonii Brandis
Vernacular name : Kakkakarimaram, Karikkodal, Karinthuvara, Makarimaram, Therikku (Malayalam)
Habit : Tree
Habitat : Evergreen forests
Comments / notes : Endemic to Western Ghats, found at an altitude between 300 and 1000m elevations. (Ramesh & Franceschi, 1993)
Key identification features : A large tree. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, coriaceous. Male fl: white in short axillary cymes. Calyx campanulate, 5-lobed. Female fl: in short dense clusters on old wood. Fruit subglobose, hard, woody; fruiting calyx hard, woody, tomentose, appressed to the basal part of the fruit. Seeds oblong-oval; endosperm not ruminate
Flower, Fruit : February-December
Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy & Noel Sebastian
Collection Date : 26-11-2018
Collection Nos : HJCB-1866
Collection Locality : Neriamangalam, Idukki district, Kerala
Distribution :
- Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Udupi district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, IDK
- Kerala : Kannur district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
Native : India
Endemism : Western Ghats
World Distribution : India
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Literature : Ramesh and Pascal 1992. Five new additions to the flora of Karnataka. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. Vol. 90 July, 1992; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Herbarium specimen from Neriamangala, Idukki district, Kerala state
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=Diospyros bourdillonii. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.