Herbarium JCB

Diospyros pruriens Dalzell

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 pruriens Dalzell
Vernacular name : Illakkatta, Paikkettu (Malayalam)
Habit : Tree
Habitat : Evergreen forests
Comments / notes : Occasional in semi-evergreen forests
Key identification features : A small tree, branchlets and young parts fulvous-hirsute. Leaves elliptic or elliptic-oblong. Male fl: peduncles axillary, 1-3-flowered. Female fl: solitary, arranged at the ends of the branches in the axils of the leaves. Fruit ovoid-conical, clothed with fulvous stinging hairs, supported by the persistent deflexed non-accrescent calyx-lobes. Seeds 4; endosperm not ruminate
Flower, Fruit : February-May
Collection Nos : Talbot 3067, Raghavan 62970, HFP 129
Distribution :
- Karnataka : Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district, Chikkamagaluru district, Hassan district, Shivamogga district, Udupi district, Hassan district
- Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Idukki district
- Maharashtra : Kolhapur district
Native : India
Endemism : Western Ghats
World Distribution : India
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnataka 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 Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg district; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
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 pruriens. Downloaded on 3 April 2025.