- Family : CLUSIACEAE
(Garcinia Or Kokam Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : KOKAM FAMILY (कोकम फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Calophyllaceae
- Synonym(s) : Balsamaria inophyllum Lour.; Calophyllum apetalum Blanco; Calophyllum blumei Wight; Calophyllum inophyllum var. takamaka Fosberg; Calophyllum inophyllum var. wakamatsui (Kaneh.) Fosberg & Sachet; Calophyllum ovatifolium Noronha; Calophyllum spurium Choisy; Calophyllum wakamatsui Kaneh.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Calophyllum inophyllum L.
- Common name : Alexdranian Laurel, Common Poon, Dilo oil tree
- Vernacular name :
- Surpan, Sultan Champa, Surpunka (Hindi)
- Honne, Surahonne, Kalhonne (Kannada)
- Pinnai (Tamil)
- Ponna, Puna (Telugu)
- Poonang, Polang (Oria)
- Punnaga, Panchakeshera (Sanskrit)
- Pinna, Punna, Surampunna (Malayalam)
- Wumaka (Marathi)
- Habit : Tree
- Habitat : Found growing at the water's edge along the seashoresr; never found Inland.
- Comments / notes : Resin yellowish green and scented. The seed yeild oil.
- Key identification features : A handsome medium to large size evergreen tree with milky latex. Leaves are simple, opposite decussate, oblong-ovate with several closely set parallel lateral veins. Flowers are in axillary, few-flowered corymbose inflorescence, about 4 cm. across, fragrant, showy and bear many free stamens. Fruit is hard, globoid, of 3-4 cms dia. resembling a golf ball, green but turning yellow when ripe. Bark is dark reddish-brown with vertical furrows and horizontal cracks.
- Flower, Fruit : March-November
- Collector(s) Name : Cecil J. Saldanha, P.Prakash
- Collection Locality : Someshwar beach (Dakshina Kannada)
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Mysuru district, Udupi district, Dakshina Kannada district
- Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Ernakulam district, Kottayam district, Alappuzha district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Tamil Nadu : All districts of Tamil Nadu
- Puducherry : Puducherry
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands : Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Native : Mozambique, Tropical Asia
- World Distribution : Paleotropics
- Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
- Literature :
- Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984
- Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi
- Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1
- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1.
- Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983
- Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
- Parkinson, C.E. 1923. A Forest Flora of the Andaman Islands, Govt. of India, Shimla: 87
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Calophyllum inophyllum. Downloaded on 13 October 2024.
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