Helicia nilagirica Bedd.

 
  • Family : PROTEACEAE
    (Protea Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : SILVER OAK FAMILY (सिल्वर ओक फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Proteaceae
  • Synonym(s) : Helicia cornifolia W.T.Wang; Helicia erratica Hook.f.; Helicia erratica var. lungtauensis F.P.Metcalf; Helicia erratica var. sinica W.T.Wang; Helicia stricta Diels
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Helicia nilagirica Bedd.
  • Vernacular name :
    • Tagale muggu (Kannada)
  • Habit : Tree
  • Habitat : Along river banks in semi-evergreen and Tropical evergreen forests
  • Comments / notes : Rare; often along streams from Agumbe to Kanyakumari
  • Key identification features : Scandent shrubs or small trees, 6-10 m high with spreading crown; Leaves obovate or oblanceolate, glaucous beneath; Flowers in axillary, glabrous racemes, yellowish; Fruits subglobose. Seeds red.
  • Flower, Fruit : June-July
  • Collection Nos : CJS 13718, CJS 14025
  • Distribution :
    • Karnataka : Shivamogga district, Hassan district
    • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Thiruvananthapuram district
    • Tamil Nadu : Kanyakumari district
    • Sikkim : Sikkim
    • Arunachal Pradesh : Siang
    • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
    • Assam : Assam
    • Nagaland : Nagaland
    • Mizoram : Mizoram
    • Manipur : Manipur
    • Tripura : Tripura
  • Native : Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Bhutan, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • Endemism : Southwest India
  • World Distribution : Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Bhutan, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam
  • Conservation Status : Data Deficient (DD)
  • Literature :
    • Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka
    • Saldanha, C. J. (1996). Flora of Karnataka vol. 2. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi
    • Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
    • Navendu Page (2017). Endemic woody plants of the Western Ghats.
    • G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 346
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Helicia nilagirica. Downloaded on 9 October 2024.

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