Haldina cordifolia (Roxb.) Ridsd.

 
  • Family : RUBIACEAE
    (Madder Or Coffee Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : COFFEE FAMILY (कॉफी फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : RUBIACEAE
  • Synonym(s) : Adina cordifolia (Roxb.) Hook.f. ex Brandis
  • Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Haldina cordifolia (Roxb.) Ridsdale
  • Common name : Haldu
  • Vernacular name : Haldu, Kadami (Hindi); Anavu (Kannada); Manjakadambai, Pumpadari, Parasamaram, Poonthekku (Tamil); Patchi Kamba Chettu, Pasupu ganapa, Pasupu kadamba, Rudra ganapa, Bandari, Bandaru, Pedda kamba, Keli kadamba gacha (Telugu); Maldu, Koim, Kurum, Halanda, Mandi, Kurnn (Oria); Haridru (Sanskrit); Barakuram, Katamba, Manjakadambu, Malamkadambu (Malayalam)
  • Habit : Tree
  • Habitat : Moist deciduous forests, also in the plains
  • Comments / notes : Occasional on foothills to 1400m, sometimes planted in plains.
  • Key identification features : A large and beautiful deciduous tree. Bole buttressed. Leaves are simple, orbicular to cordate, with an acuminate tip. Flowers are small and yellow and aggregated in heads. Corolla is funnel- shaped. Stamens are 5 and attached at the mouth of the corolla. Filaments are short with oblong anthers. Fruit is a capsule.
  • Flower, Fruit : October-June
  • Collector(s) Name : Arun Singh R, Raja K.Swamy & Rajasri Ray; B.R.Ramesh & Shivaprakash
  • Collection Date : 11/09/2014
  • Collection Nos : HJCB-0005; CJS 13678, KFP 13354
  • Collection Locality : Kavalur Observatory, Jawadhu Hills, Tiruvannamalai district (TN); Malagaon FRL (Uttara Kannada)
  • Distribution :
    • Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district, Nellore district, Kadapa district, East Godavari district, Srikakulam district, West Godavari district, Vishakapatnam district
    • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Ballari district, Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Davanagare district, Hassan district, Kolar district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Tumakuru district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district
    • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Ernakulam district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
    • Odisha : Mayurbhanj district, Koraput district
    • Tamil Nadu : Madurai district, Salem district, Tiruvannamalai district, Dharmapuri district, Dindigul district
  • World Distribution : India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, China, Vietnam, Thailand, Bangladesh
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2007 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 3; J.L.Ellis, 1987- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 1; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District; N.P.Singh, 1988- Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere 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=Haldina cordifolia. Downloaded on 14 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.