• Family : ELAEOCARPACEAE
  (Olivnut Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : RUDRAKSHA FAMILY (रुद्राक्ष फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ELAEOCARPACEAE
• Basionym : Echinocarpus sterculiacea Benth.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Sloanea sterculiacea (Benth.) Rehder & E.H. Wilson
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Dry deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Rare in moist deciduous forests above 1000m, also along streams.
• Key identification features : Deciduous trees, to 20m high; bark smooth, brown, puberulous. Leaves elliptic to oblong-oblanceolate, cunate at base, acuminate at apex, glabrous. Inflorescence a fascicled in leafless parts. Flowers greenish yellow. Capsules ovoid to globose with stiff spines. Seeds 4, black, shiny, aril orange-yellow
• Flower, Fruit : September-May
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district
• World Distribution : India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• 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; Ravikumar & Balachandran-2014, Journal of Threatened Taxa 6(8): 6108–6121
• 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=Sloanea sterculiacea. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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