- 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 var. laurina (Retz.) Noot.
- 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
- 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 December 2024.
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