Symplocos cochinchinensis (Lour.) S. Moore

 
  • 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 cochinchinensis (Lour.) S. Moore
  • Habit : Tree
  • Habitat : Tropical moist deciduous forests, Tropical evergreen forests
  • Key identification features : Trees, up to 15 m high, bark grey; young stems brown hairy; Leaves elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, acute, glabrous above, ferruginously hairy beneath; Flowers usually in branched spikes, white to pale yellow, fragrant; calyx lobes hairy, often enlarged in fruits forming a conical beak; Fruits ovoid, green, black when ripe.
  • Flower, Fruit : April- November
  • Distribution :
    • Karnataka : Hassan district
    • Maharashtra : Satara district
    • Tamil Nadu : Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary, Theni district
    • Sikkim : Sikkim
    • Arunachal Pradesh : Kameng, Siang, Subansiri, Tirap
    • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
    • Assam : Assam
    • Nagaland : Nagaland
    • Mizoram : Mizoram
    • Manipur : Manipur
    • Tripura : Tripura
  • Native : Australia, Bismarck Archipelago, Bhutan, Borneo, Cambodia, China, Fiji, Hainan, India, Japan, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, Philippines, Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Islands, Sulawesi, Sumatera,
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • World Distribution : Australia, Bismarck Archipelago, Bhutan, Borneo, Cambodia, China, Fiji, Hainan, India, Japan, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, Philippines, Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Islands, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Vanuatu, Vietnam
  • Literature :
    • Karuppusamy, S. and V. Ravichandran (2016). Diversity Assessment of woody plants of Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary, Theni District, Tamil Nadu. Bio Bulletin. 2 (1): 58-73.
    • 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. Downloaded on 13 December 2024.

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