- Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
(Spurge Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : AMLA FAMILY (आँवला फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Phyllanthaceae
- Basionym : Stilago bunius L.
- Synonym(s) : Antidesma bunius var. genuinum Müll.Arg.; Antidesma stilago Forsyth f.; Sapium crassifolium Elmer; Antidesma andamanicum Hook.f.; Antidesma bunius var. cordifolium (C.Presl) Müll.Arg.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Antidesma bunius (L.) Spreng.
- Common name : Chinese laurel, Salamander tree
- Vernacular name :
- Nayi kode (Kannada)
- Anep (Telugu)
- Aryaporiyan, Cherutali, Mayilkombi, Neelathali, Noolithali (Malayalam)
- Habit : Tree
- Habitat : Tropical evergreen forests, also in sacred groves
- Comments / notes : Fruits are edible; Bark is used for making ropes.
- Key identification features : Small trees, 2-15 m high with dense crown; younger parts tomentose; Leaves oblong-Ianceolate, oblanceolate or oblong-elliptic, glabrous; Flowers in pubescent racemose spikes or panicles, reddish; Fruits ellipsoid, black.
- Flower, Fruit : April-August
- Collection Locality : Occasional in Hill forests.
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district, East Godavari district
- Karnataka : Belagavi district, Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Uttara Kannada district
- Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Odisha : Mayurbhanj district, Ganjam district
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Arunachal Pradesh : Changlang, Lohit, Tirap
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Andaman Islands, Bangladesh, Borneo, China, Christmas Island, Bhutan, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, New Guinea, Nicobar Islands, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : India incl. Andaman & Nicobar, Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, SE.Asia, South China, New Guinea, Java
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3
- Sudhakar Reddy, C et al., 2009. Tree Wealth of Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh, India
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
- Saldanha, C.J. (1996). Flora of Karnataka vol. 2. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi.
- G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 361-362
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Antidesma bunius. Downloaded on 12 October 2024.
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