- Family : SALICACEAE
(Willow Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : BAN PEEPAL FAMILY (बन पीपल फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Salicaceae
- Synonym(s) : Blakwellia ceylanica Gardner; Blakwellia tetrandra Wight; Homalium balansae Gagnep.; Homalium bhamoense Cubitt & W.W.Sm.; Homalium bhamoense var. debbarmanii P.C.Kanjilal; Homalium bhamoense f. glabra P.C.Kanjilal; Homalium ceylanicum var. debbarmanii (P.C.Kanjilal) H.B.Naithani & S.Biswas; Homalium ceylanicum var. laoticum (Gagnep.) G.S.Fan; Homalium ceylanicum subsp. minutiflorum (Kurz) R.L.Mitra; Homalium ciliatum Debb.; Homalium ciliatum Debb. ex N.Mukh.; Homalium crenulatum E.T.Geddes; Homalium hainanense Gagnep.; Homalium laoticum Gagnep.; Homalium laoticum var. glabratum C.Y.Wu; Homalium minutiflorum Kurz
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Homalium ceylanicum (Gardner) Benth.
- Common name : Ceylon Homalium, Kalladamba, Liyan, Mukki
- Vernacular name :
- Hulikaddi mara, Kalamattiga (Kannada), Kalavaram, Kalladamba (Malayalam), Homali (Marathi), Manthralamukhi (Telugu)
- Habit : Tree
- Key identification features : Branchlets brown, angular to terete, puberulous to glabrous; Leaves elliptic to oblong, thinly leathery to thickly papery, abaxially pubescent with appressed short hairs or glabrous, hairless above, midvein raised below; Flower racemes occur in leaf axils, pendulous; Flowers numerous, in fascicles, reddish or whitish colour, fragrant. Bark is smooth to coarse.
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Uttara Kannada district (Kumta)
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Arunachal Pradesh : Arunachal Pradesh
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Hainan, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Hainan, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam
- Literature :
- Photograph of Dinesh Valke
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Homalium ceylanicum. Downloaded on 11 October 2024.
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