- 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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