Diploknema butyracea (Roxb.) H.J.Lam

 
  • Family : SAPOTACEAE
    (Sapodilla Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : CHIKOO FAMILY (चीकू फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Sapotaceae
  • Basionym : Bassia butyracea Roxb.
  • Synonym(s) : Aesandra butyracea (Roxb.) Baehni; Illipe butyracea (Roxb.) Engl.; Madhuca butyracea (Roxb.) J.F.Macbr.; Mixandra butyracea (Roxb.) Pierre ex Dubard; Vidoricum butyraceum (Roxb.) Kuntze
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Diploknema butyracea (Roxb.) H.J.Lam
  • Common name : Indian Butter Tree
  • Vernacular name :
    • Phalwara, Phulvara, Phulwa (Hindi)
    • Benne Mara (Kannada)
    • Madhuka, Madhukapuspi (Sanskrit)
  • Habit : Tree
  • Habitat : Subtropical and warm broad-leaved forests; 820 - 1370 m. altitude
  • Comments / notes : Fruit edible and yielding useful oil; bark used as fish poison.
  • Key identification features : Large trees, up to 26 m high; Leaves obovate or obovate-oblong, subobtuse, tomentose to glabrous; Flowers with rusty villous calyx lobes; Berries globose or oblong-ellipsoid, 1-3-seeded; Seeds ellipsoid.
  • Flower, Fruit : July-December
  • Distribution :
    • Uttarakhand : Nainital district
    • Sikkim : East Sikkim (Gangtok) district,South Sikkim (Namchi) district
    • West Bengal : Darjeeling district
    • Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
    • Arunachal Pradesh : TWG
    • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
    • Assam : Assam
    • Nagaland : Nagaland
    • Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
    • Mizoram : Mizoram
    • Andaman and Nicobar Islands : Andaman and Nicobar Islands
    • Manipur : Manipur
    • Tripura : Tripura
  • Native : Andaman Islands, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Tibet
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • World Distribution : Andaman Islands, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Tibet
  • Literature :
    • Uniyal B.P., Sharma J.R., Choudhery U., Singh D.K. (2007). Flowering Plants of Uttarakhand: A Checklist. Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh: 169
    • GRIERSON A.J.C. & LONG D.G. (1983). FLORA OF BHUTAN INCLUDING A RECORD OF PLANTS FROM SIKKIM Vol. 2: Part 2. ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, EDINBURGH: 573
    • Parkinson, C.E. 1923. A Forest Flora of the Andaman Islands, Govt. of India, Shimla: 196
    • G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 129
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Diploknema butyracea. Downloaded on 14 December 2024.

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