- Family : STERCULIACEAE
(Sterculia Or Cocoa Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : COCOA FAMILY
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Malvaceae
- Basionym : Sterculia alata Roxb.
- Synonym(s) : Clompanus alata (Roxb.) Kuntze; Pterygota roxburghii Schott & Endl.; Sterculia coccinea Wall.; Sterculia heynei Bedd.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Pterygota alata (Roxb.) R.Br.
- Common name : Buddha's Coconut tree
- Vernacular name :
- Kodaittondi, Anaittondi (Tamil)
- Anathondi, Kavalam, Kudatthanni, Pothondi (Malayalam)
- Habit : Tree
- Habitat : Tropical evergreen forests, Tropical semi-evergreen forests
- Comments / notes : These trees are towering giants of the rain forests of North-East India. Wood Cream-coloured, hard. It la a good avenue tree but easily gets broken by windstorm owing to its height and slenderness
- Key identification features : A large deciduous native tree with a heigh, narrow, crown and horizontal branches. Leaves are simple and large. Inflorescence is branched, covered with rusty-brown hairs and is few-flowered. Flowers (about 2.5 cm. wide) are brownish-yellow: males apetalous with sterile ovaries, while bisexual flowers are functionally female. Fruit is woody, dehiscent, about 12 cm. across and minutely reddish-brown-felted outside. Seeds are many and winged. Bark grey and relatively smooth.
- Flower, Fruit : April-May
- Collection Nos : Talbot 3633, KFP 582, KFP 12915
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Uttara Kannada district
- Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district
- Tamil Nadu : Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, The Nilgiri district, Tirunelveli district
- West Bengal : Darjeeling district
- Arunachal Pradesh : Arunachal Pradesh
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Delhi : Delhi
- Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands : Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Hainan, India, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Nicobar Is., Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : South Asia and Myanmar
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984
- Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore
- Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
- Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.
- Parkinson, C.E. 1923. A Forest Flora of the Andaman Islands, Govt. of India, Shimla: 99
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Pterygota alata. Downloaded on 7 September 2024.
|
|
Botanical Description
|
![](./hsheet/pdf/Pterygota alata/236.pdf.jpg) |
Herbarium Specimen(s)
|
![](./hsheet/herb/Pterygota alata/P1010597.JPG) |
![](./hsheet/herb/Pterygota alata/P1010598.JPG) |
Field Image(s)
|
![](./hsheet/field/Pterygota alata/Pterygota alata Bark copy(2).jpg) |
![](./hsheet/field/Pterygota alata/Pterygota alata _1568 copy(2).jpg) |
![](./hsheet/field/Pterygota alata/Pterygota alata copy.jpg) |
![](./hsheet/field/Pterygota alata/Pterygota alata(2).jpg) |
![](./hsheet/field/Pterygota alata/Pterygota alata_1.JPG) |
![](./hsheet/field/Pterygota alata/Sterculia alata.JPG) |
![](./hsheet/field/Pterygota alata/Sterculia alata1.JPG) |
Habitat
|
![](Landscapes_thumbs/pushpagiri- kudremukh.JPG) |
![](Landscapes_thumbs/sahyadri 2.JPG) |
India Distribution
|
![](india_map.php?state_list=Karnataka,Kerala,Tamil Nadu,West Bengal,Arunachal Pradesh,Meghalaya,Assam,Nagaland,Delhi,Uttar Pradesh,Mizoram,Andaman and Nicobar Islands,Manipur,Tripura,) |
World Distribution
|
![](world_map.php?country_list=Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Hainan, India, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Nicobar Is., Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam,South Asia and Myanmar) |
|