- Family : CLUSIACEAE
(Garcinia Or Kokam Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : KOKAM FAMILY (कोकम फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Calophyllaceae
- Synonym(s) : Calophyllum elatum Bedd.; Calophyllum smilesianum Craib; Calophyllum williamsianum Craib.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Calophyllum polyanthum Wall. ex Choisy
- Common name : The Poon-spar, Poon Tree, Sirpoon tree
- Vernacular name :
- Salhonne (Kannada)
- Kattu pinnai (Tamil)
- Malampunna, Kattupunna, Punna, Pinnapai, Punnappine (Malayalam)
- Poon (Marathi)
- Habit : Tree
- Habitat : Tropical evergreen forests
- Comments / notes : A tall lofty handsome tree. Wood used in ship masts.
- Key identification features : Tree with Buttressed trunk, unbranched to a great height. Bark deeply fissured, yellowish-brown, not flaking, blaze red with white streaks, small buttress. Flowers in panicles, white fragrant in lax panicles. Latex watery turning yellow.
- Flower, Fruit : March- January
- Collection Nos : DD 33622 teste Stevens, BSI (S.C.) 3083; KFP 587, KFP 7018, KFP 10942
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Uttara Kannada district, Chikkamagaluru district
- Kerala : Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, The Nilgiri district, Tirunelveli district
- Arunachal Pradesh : Siang district
- Native : India, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Indo-Malesia, China
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984
- Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished)
- Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state
- Sharma B.D, 1984 - Flora of Karnataka Analysis
- Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
- P.K . Hajra ., D.M. Verma and G.S. Giri (1996). Materials For The Flora Of Arunachal Pradesh , Vol (1), Pg : 212-213
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Calophyllum polyanthum. Downloaded on 7 September 2024.
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Botanical Description
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Field Image(s)
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Habitat
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India Distribution
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World Distribution
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