Celtis timorensis Span.

 
  • Family : ULMACEAE
    (Elm Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : KHIRK FAMILY
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Cannabaceae
  • Synonym(s) : Celtis cinnamomea Lindl. ex Planch.; Celtis crenatoserrata Merr.; Celtis dysodoxylon Thwaites; Celtis hamata Blume; Celtis reticulosa Miq.; Celtis waitzii Blume; Sponia pendula Span.
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Celtis timorensis Span.
  • Vernacular name :
    • Bendemara, Pelle (Kannada), Poothikaashta (Sanskrit)
    • Butha, Butha-onatthi, Poochakkurumaram (Malayalam)
  • Habit : Tree
  • Comments / notes : Often on hills to 1200m, in moist places.
  • Key identification features : Bark pale green covered with small lenticels.
  • Flower, Fruit : January-April
  • Collection Nos : CS 6532
  • Distribution :
    • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district, Guntur district, Prakasam district
    • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district
    • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
    • Odisha : Angul district
    • Tamil Nadu : Shevaroy Hills (Salem district)
    • Sikkim : Sikkim
    • Arunachal Pradesh : Tirap
    • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
    • Assam : Assam
    • Nagaland : Nagaland
    • Mizoram : Mizoram
    • Andaman and Nicobar Islands : North and Middle Andaman,Ritchie\'s Archipelago taluk (Havelock Island),Baratang Island,Rutland Island
    • Manipur : Manipur
    • Tripura : Tripura
  • Native : Andaman Islands, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, China, Christmas Island, Bhutan, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicobar Islands, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sumatera, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • World Distribution : Andaman Islands, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, China, Christmas Island, Bhutan, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicobar Islands, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sumatera, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Literature :
    • Yoganarasimhan, SN., Subramanyam and Razi, BA (1981). Flora of Chikmagalur District, Karnataka. Intl, Book Distri., Dehra Dun, Uttarakhand, India
    • Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984
    • Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
    • H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3
    • Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983
    • 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: 245
    • G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 387
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Celtis timorensis. Downloaded on 13 October 2024.

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