- Family : DIPTEROCARPACEAE
(Dipterocarpus Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : SAKHU FAMILY
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Dipterocarpaceae
- Basionym : Artocarpus ponga Dennst.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Hopea ponga (Dennst.) Mabb.
- Vernacular name :
- Kalmara, Hiribhogi, Karimara, Doddele Bogi (Kannada)
- Ilapongu (Tamil)
- Kalhoni, Kavsi (Marathi)
- Eyyakam, Illapongu, Irumbakam, Kambakam, Naduvalippongu, Naithambagam, Nayurippu, Pongu, Thingam (Malayalam)
- Habit : Tree
- Habitat : Tropical evergreen forests, Tropical semi-evergreen forests at elevation of 400-700 m, also in sacred groves in the plains
- Comments / notes : Produces galls which are mistaken for fruits.
- Key identification features : A lofty tree of Western Ghats. Leaves are simple, oblong-lanceolate, up to 23 cm long, 7.5 cm broad with a swollen petiole and yellow tomentum. Flowers are bisexual and borne on branched inflorescence. Petals are ovate-lanceolate and hairy outside. Stamens are as many as 15. Sepals are enlarged and remain persistant as wings on the fruit, greenish but turning to red when fruit matures.
- Flower, Fruit : July-November
- Collector(s) Name : C.J.Saldanha; C.J.Saldanha, K.R.Keshava Murthy
- Collection Date : 27-04-1970; 03-05-1979
- Collection Nos : 16943, KFP 7194
- Collection Locality : Shiradi ghat, Hassan district; Gundia-Shiradi road, Hassan district
- Distribution :
- Goa : South Goa district
- Karnataka : Belagavi district, Dakshina Kannada district, Davanagare district, Hassan district, Shivamogga district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Tamil Nadu : Tirunelveli district
- Native : India
- Exotic/Native : Native
- Endemism : Western Ghats
- World Distribution : India
- Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
- Literature :
- Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnatka 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- Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished)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, 2003 – Flora of Udupi district
- Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere district
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
- Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1
- Navendu Page (2017). Endemic woody plants of the Western Ghats.
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Hopea ponga. Downloaded on 14 June 2024.
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Botanical Description
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Herbarium Specimen(s)
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Line Drawings
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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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