- Family : OLEACEAE
(Olive Or Jasmine Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : MOGRA FAMILY (मोगरा फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Oleaceae
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Nyctanthes arbor-tristis L.
- Common name : Coral Jasmine, Night Jasmine, Arbor Tristis, Har Singar, Parijat, Sad tree, Tree of Sadness, Tree of Sorrow
- Vernacular name :
- Harsimgar, Seoli, Sinharu (Hindi)
- Parijata (Kannada)
- Pavalamalli, Paarijaatham (Tamil)
- Parijatam, Paghada malli, Krishti (Telugu)
- Gangaseoli, Godokodika, Gurjo seoli, Singaroharo, Sepli, Sedi, Siruli, Gantha khelika, Gutikhadika, Godokodika, Singhara (Oria)
- Parijatah (Sanskrit)
- Mannapu, Paarijatham, Pavizhamalli, Pavizhamulla (Malayalam)
- Habit : Tree
- Habitat : Open forests
- Comments / notes : Often planted in gardens and places of worship. Flowers are very fragrant.
- Key identification features : Deciduous trees, 9-10 m high; branchlets scabrid pilose; Leaves ovate, acute, distantly toothed to subentire, scabrid; Flowers in hairy, quadrangular peduncles arranged in cymes, sessile with orange red tubes and white lobes, fragrant; Capsules orbicular, compressed, apex mucronate-emarginate.
- Flower, Fruit : September-April
- Collector(s) Name : R.Raghavendra Rao
- Collection Date : 06/02/1970
- Collection Nos : KFP 855
- Collection Locality : Botanical garden, Manasagangotri, Mysuru
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Andhra Pradesh
- Telangana : Nagarkurnool district
- Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Mysuru district, Bengaluru district
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Odisha : Odisha
- Tamil Nadu : Tamil Nadu
- Jharkhand :
- Madhya Pradesh : Madhya Pradesh
- Gujarat : Junagadh
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Arunachal Pradesh : Kameng
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Delhi : Delhi
- Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
- Punjab : Punjab
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Bangladesh, Cambodia, Bhutan, India, Jawa, Laos, Nepal, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Bangladesh, Cambodia, Bhutan, India, Jawa, Laos, Nepal, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4
- J.L.Ellis, 1990- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 2
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2
- R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District
- R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District
- H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa
- Sudhakar Reddy, C et al., 2009. Tree Wealth of Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh, India
- Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
- G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 150
- Indigenous Plants at Biodiversity Park, Ranchi - Ranchi Afforestation Division, Forest and Environmental Department, Jharkhand
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Nyctanthes arbor-tristis. Downloaded on 13 October 2024.
|
|
Botanical Description
|
|
Herbarium Specimen(s)
|
|
Field Image(s)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
India Distribution
|
|
World Distribution
|
|
|