- Family : LAURACEAE
(Laurel Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : DALCHINI FAMILY (दालचीनी फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Lauraceae
- Basionym : Strychnodaphne lanceolata Nees
- Synonym(s) : Ocotea lanceolata Nees; Persea lanceolata (Nees) Oliv.; Laurus camphorata Buch.-Ham. ex Nees; Laurus lanceolaria Roxb.; Laurus ligustrina Wall.; Laurus salicifolia Buch.-Ham. ex Nees; Ocotea lanceolaria Voigt; Phoebe lummaoensis M.Gangop.; Phoebe palghatensis M.Gangop.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Phoebe lanceolata (Nees) Nees
- Vernacular name :
- Habit : Tree
- Habitat : Shady valleys of evergreen and Tropical semi-evergreen forests, also in secondary forests
- Comments / notes : Common
- Key identification features : Small or medium sized trees, Up to 10m high; bark whitish; Leaves lanceolate to elliptic lanceolate, glaucous beneath; Flowers in axillary, long peduncled, corymbiform panicles, greenish white or yellowish; Fruits ovoid, blackish purple.
- Flower, Fruit : March-July
- Distribution :
- Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district
- Odisha : Mayurbhanj district
- Uttarakhand : Nainital district
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Arunachal Pradesh : Changlang, Kameng, Lohit, Tirap
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Andaman Islands, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Bhutan, India, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : India, Himalayas, Myanmar
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3
- H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
- G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 345
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Phoebe lanceolata. Downloaded on 7 September 2024.
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Botanical Description
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Herbarium Specimen(s)
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Field Image(s)
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India Distribution
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World Distribution
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