Phoebe lanceolata (Nees) Nees

 
  • Family : LAURACEAE
    (Laurel Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : DALCHINI FAMILY (दालचीनी फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Lauraceae
  • Basionym : Strychnodaphne lanceolata Nees
  • Synonym(s) : Ocotea lanceolata Nees; Persea lanceolata (Nees) Oliv.; Laurus camphorata Buch.-Ham. ex Nees; Laurus lanceolaria Roxb.; Laurus ligustrina Wall.; Laurus salicifolia Buch.-Ham. ex Nees; Ocotea lanceolaria Voigt; Phoebe lummaoensis M.Gangop.; Phoebe palghatensis M.Gangop.
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Phoebe lanceolata (Nees) Nees
  • Vernacular name :
    • Haulia (Hindi)
  • Habit : Tree
  • Habitat : Shady valleys of evergreen and Tropical semi-evergreen forests, also in secondary forests
  • Comments / notes : Common
  • Key identification features : Small or medium sized trees, Up to 10m high; bark whitish; Leaves lanceolate to elliptic lanceolate, glaucous beneath; Flowers in axillary, long peduncled, corymbiform panicles, greenish white or yellowish; Fruits ovoid, blackish purple.
  • Flower, Fruit : March-July
  • Distribution :
    • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district
    • Odisha : Mayurbhanj district
    • Uttarakhand : Nainital district
    • Sikkim : Sikkim
    • Arunachal Pradesh : Changlang, Kameng, Lohit, Tirap
    • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
    • Assam : Assam
    • Nagaland : Nagaland
    • Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
    • Mizoram : Mizoram
    • Manipur : Manipur
    • Tripura : Tripura
  • Native : Andaman Islands, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Bhutan, India, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • World Distribution : India, Himalayas, Myanmar
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Literature :
    • H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3
    • H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa
    • 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: 345
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Phoebe lanceolata. Downloaded on 6 December 2024.

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