- Family : STERCULIACEAE
(Sterculia Or Cocoa Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : COCOA FAMILY
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Malvaceae
- Synonym(s) : Binnendijkia trichostylis Kurz; Grewia acuminata Bedd.; Grewia caudata Wall. ex G.Don; Grewia heteroclita Roxb.; Leptonychia acuminata Mast.; Leptonychia glabra Turcz.; Leptonychia heteroclita Kurz; Leptonychia moacurroides Bedd.; Paragrewia poilanei Gagnep. ex R.S.Rao; Turraea trichostylis Miq.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Leptonychia caudata (Wall. ex G.Don) Burret
- Habit : Shrub
- Habitat : Tropical evergreen forests, Tropical semi-evergreen forests, Tropical moist deciduous forests
- Comments / notes : Rare in evergreen forests of Western Ghats; elevation 500-1000 m.
- Key identification features : An evergreen shrubby tree. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, base somewhat oblique and 3-5 nerved, entire, glabrous or thinly stellate hairy, membranous; petiole 0.5 in. long. Flowers in axillary fascicles, small, whitish, sepals 6, valvate; petals 5, 2-lobed; stamens 10, between 2 series of staminodes. Capsule coriaceous, rugose, with one black seed.
- Flower, Fruit : June-September
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Kodagu (Coorg) district
- Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Tamil Nadu : Kanyakumari district, Coimbatore district, The Nilgiri district, Tirunelveli district
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands : South Andaman
- Native : India, Borneo, Malaya, Myanmar, Philippines, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Indo-Malesia
- Conservation Status : Vulnerable (VU)
- Literature :
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
- Navendu Page (2017). Endemic woody plants of the Western Ghats.
- Parkinson, C.E. 1923. A Forest Flora of the Andaman Islands, Govt. of India, Shimla: 109
- Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Leptonychia caudata. Downloaded on 16 February 2025.
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