- Family : BOMBACACEAE
(Bombax Or Kapok Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : SEMAL FAMILY (लटकन फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Malvaceae
- Synonym(s) : Bombax festivum Wall.; Bombax scopulorum Dunn; Bombax tenebrosum Dunn; Gossampinus insignis Bakh.; Salmalia insignis (Wall.) Schott & Endl.; Salmalia scopulorum (Dunn) Stearn; Bombax insigne var. andamanica Prain
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Bombax insigne Wall.
- Common name : The White Silk Cotton Tree
- Vernacular name :
- Poola, Kallilavu, Ilavu, Parei-ilavu (Malayalam)
- Shalmali (Marathi)
- Habit : Tree
- Habitat : Tropical moist deciduous forests, Tropical semi-evergreen forests, also in the plains.
- Comments / notes : The cotton from the fruit is used for making surgical dressings
- Key identification features : A lofty fast growing buttressed tree with conical prickles on the young stem; branches are arranged in whorls. Leaves are palmately compound with 5-7 lanceolate leaflets:Flowers that appear in clusters are conspicuous, attractive and light red: stamens numerous and occur in six bundles around the style. Fruit is a capsule with seeds are embedded in silky floss.
- Flower, Fruit : January-May
- Collector(s) Name : K.P.Sreenath, Raja Keshava Murthy, B.R.Ramesh
- Collection Nos : KFP 5099, CJS 16013
- Collection Locality : Jaipura (Chikmagalur)
- Distribution :
- Kerala : Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Maharashtra : Aurangabad district, Kolhapur district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
- Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district
- Arunachal Pradesh : Arunachal Pradesh
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands : Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Andaman Islands, Bangladesh, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Andaman Islands, Bangladesh, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
- Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.
- Parkinson, C.E. 1923. A Forest Flora of the Andaman Islands, Govt. of India, Shimla 98
- Nayar, T. S., et al, 2006. Flowering plants of Kerala, A hand book
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Bombax insigne. Downloaded on 12 October 2024.
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