Quercus griffithii Hook.f. & Thomson ex Miq

 
  • Family : FAGACEAE
    (Beech Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : MORU FAMILY (मोरु फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Fagaceae
  • Synonym(s) : Quercus aliena subsp. griffithii (Hook.f. & Thomson ex Miq.) Phengklai; Quercus aliena var. griffithii (Hook.f. & Thomson ex Miq.) Schottky
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Quercus griffithii Hook.f. & Thomson ex Miq.
  • Habit : Tree
  • Habitat : Mixed mesophytic forests
  • Key identification features : Trees to 25 m tall, deciduous. Branchlets yellowish gray pilose or pubescent, glabrescent. Petiole 0.5-1 cm, grayish brown shaggy; leaf blade obovate to obovate-elliptic. Nut ellipsoid to ovoid-ellipsoid, 1.5-2 × 0.8-1.2 cm; scar ca. 6 mm in diam., slightly raised; stylopodium ca. 1 mm in diam.
  • Flower, Fruit : September-October
  • Distribution :
    • Sikkim : Sikkim
    • Arunachal Pradesh : Kameng
    • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
    • Assam : Assam
    • Nagaland : Nagaland
    • Mizoram : Mizoram
    • Manipur : Manipur
    • Tripura : Tripura
  • Native : China, Bhutan, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • World Distribution : China, Bhutan, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam
  • Literature :
    • Herbarium collected by Patanjali Bhartiya Ayurvigyan AvUm Anusandhan Sansthan, Haridwar, Uttarkhand
    • G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 431-432
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Quercus griffithii. Downloaded on 7 October 2024.

Herbarium Specimen(s)

India Distribution

World Distribution

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