Elaeocarpus aristatus Roxb.

 
  • Family : ELAEOCARPACEAE
    (Olivnut Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : RUDRAKSHA FAMILY (रुद्राक्ष फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Elaeocarpaceae
  • Synonym(s) : Monocera aristata Jack
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Elaeocarpus aristatus Roxb.
  • Habit : Tree
  • Habitat : Usually along streams and in dump places and often with thin large buttresses
  • Comments / notes : Rare
  • Key identification features : A fairly large tree with a smooth grey bark, cut dirty brown, mealy and watery near the sapwood. Fowers yellowish-white, in axillary racemes; petal silky. Fruit ellipsoid-ovoid, smooth and greenish; stone 2-ridged.
  • Flower, Fruit : April-June
  • Distribution :
    • Maharashtra : Konkan
    • Arunachal Pradesh : Arunachal Pradesh
    • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
    • Assam : Assam
    • Nagaland : Nagaland
    • Mizoram : Mizoram
    • Andaman and Nicobar Islands : South Andaman,North and Middle Andaman,Long Island
    • Manipur : Manipur
    • Tripura : Tripura
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • World Distribution : Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nicobar Islands
  • Literature :
    • N.P. Sing & S. Karthikeyan 2000. Flora of Maharastra vol 1. Botanical survey of India, Govt. India.
    • Parkinson, C.E. 1923. A Forest Flora of the Andaman Islands, Govt. of India, Shimla: 105
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Elaeocarpus aristatus. Downloaded on 5 October 2024.

India Distribution

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