Symplocos cochinchinensis subsp. laurina (Retz.) Nooteb.

 
  • Family : SYMPLOCACEAE
    (Symplocos Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : SODH FAMILY (सोध फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Symplocaceae
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Symplocos acuminata (Blume) Miq.
  • Common name : Chunga
  • Vernacular name :
    • Bholiya, Sodh (Hindi)
    • Changa (Kannada)
    • Kambili vetti, Pithakkottai, Vaspamaram (Tamil)
    • Bhaunri (Oria)
    • Lodrah (Sanskrit)
    • Kamblivetti, Pachotti, Parala, Pambari (Malayalam)
  • Habit : Tree
  • Habitat : Hill forests along streams in evergreen, semievergreen and Shola
  • Comments / notes : On hills above 1300m in sholas
  • Key identification features : Small trees; Leaves broadly lanceolate or elliptic, acute, serrulate; Flowers in long panic1ed spikes, rusty pubescent; calyx lobes glabrous, often ciliate, not enlarged in fruits.
  • Flower, Fruit : January-September
  • Distribution :
    • Karnataka : Hassan (Bisile Ghat), Kodagu (Coorg) district
    • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
    • Odisha : Mayurbhanj district, Keonjhar district, Sundergarh district, Angul district, Kalhandi district
    • Tamil Nadu : Dindigul district, Tiruchirapalli district, Salem district, Coimbatore district, Kanyakumari district, The Nilgiri district, Theni district, Tirunelveli district
    • Arunachal Pradesh : Subansiri
  • Native : Andaman Islands, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, China, Bhutan, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • World Distribution : Continental Asia
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Literature :
    • H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa
    • Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4
    • H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2
    • Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983
    • 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: 137
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Symplocos cochinchinensis subsp. laurina. Downloaded on 14 February 2025.

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