Antiaris toxicaria Lesch.

 
  • Family : MORACEAE
    (Mulberry Or Fig Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : ANJEER FAMILY (अंजीर फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Moraceae
  • Synonym(s) : Antiaris dubia Span. ex Hook.; Antiaris innoxia Blume; Antiaris palembanica Miq.; Antiaris rufa Miq.; Antiaris saccidora Dalzell; Antiaris zeylanica Seem.; Ipo palembanicum (Miq.) Kuntze; Ipo rufa Kuntze; Ipo saccidora (Dalzell) A.Lyons; Ipo toxicaria (J.F.Gmel.) Pers.; Lepurandra saccidora Nimmo; Cestrum toxicarium J.F.Gmel.; Toxicaria macassariensis Aepnel. ex Steud.
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Antiaris toxicaria Lesch.
  • Common name : Sack Tree , Upas tree
  • Vernacular name :
    • Junglee Lakucha (Hindi)
    • Jajhugri (Kannada)
    • Aranjili, Aranthal, Chilaperramaram, Karanjili, Maravuri, Nerravil (Malayalam)
  • Habit : Tree
  • Habitat : Tropical evergreen forests, Tropical semi-evergreen forests, also in the sacred groves
  • Flower, Fruit : January-April
  • Distribution :
    • Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district, Kadapa district
    • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Uttara Kannada district
    • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
    • Maharashtra : Pune
    • Tamil Nadu : Tiruchirapalli district
    • Andaman and Nicobar Islands : North and Middle Andaman,South Andaman,Ritchie\'s Archipelago taluk (Havelock Island),Long Island,Baratang Island
  • Native : India
  • World Distribution : Paleotropics
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Literature :
    • Parthsarathy, N & Pragasan , A L 2009. Check List 5(3):542-569
    • Ravikumar, K. & R.V. Sankar 2009. Antiaris toxicaria (Moraceae) – a new distributional record to the Eastern Ghats. Journal of Threatened Taxa 1(1): 58-59
    • Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
    • Saldanha, 1984
    • Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara.
    • Parkinson, C.E. 1923. A Forest Flora of the Andaman Islands, Govt. of India, Shimla: 254
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Antiaris toxicaria. Downloaded on 4 December 2024.

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