Phoenix sylvestris (L.) Roxb.

 
  • Family : ARECACEAE
    (Palm Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : NARIYAL FAMILY (नारियल फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Arecaceae
  • Basionym : Elate sylvestris L.
  • Synonym(s) : Elate versicolor Salisb.
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Phoenix sylvestris (L.) Roxb.
  • Common name : Wild Date Palm, Thoddy Palm, Date sugar palm, Indian date Palm
  • Vernacular name :
    • Ichalu mara (Kannada)
    • Eechamaram, Periya eecahm (Tamil)
    • Shindi (Marathi)
    • Kattinta (Malayalam)
    • Khajuri, Khejur, Kojari (Oria)
    • Pedda-ita (Telugu)
    • Khajuri (Hindi)
  • Habit : Palm
  • Comments / notes : Often on plains in scrub jungles and wastelands. The floral apex is tapped for Toddy
  • Flower, Fruit : January-October
  • Collector(s) Name : Cecil J. Saldanha, T.P.Ramamoorthy; Cecil J. Saldanha, B.Gurudev Singh, Shivaprakash; Raja K. Swamy, Navendu Page, Ravichandran V.
  • Collection Date : 5-12-1970, 28-10-1981, 02-03-2017
  • Collection Nos : HFP 1222, KFP 13900, HJCB 987
  • Collection Locality : Hassan-Sakleshpur road, Hassan district; Bababudangiri, Chikkamagaluru district; Jasipur town, Odisha
  • Distribution :
    • Andhra Pradesh : Throughout Andhra Pradesh
    • Karnataka : All districts of Karnataka
    • Kerala : Kozhikode district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Thiruvananthapuram district
    • Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Amravati district, Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Jalgaon district, Kolhapur district, Nagpur district, Nashik district, Osmanabad district, Pune district, Raigad district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district, Yavatmal district
    • Odisha : Throughout Odisha
    • Tamil Nadu : Throughout Hills of Tamil Nadu
    • Madhya Pradesh : Hoshangabad district
    • Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
    • Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
    • Arunachal Pradesh : Subansiri
    • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
    • Assam : Assam
    • Nagaland : Nagaland
    • Delhi : Delhi
    • Punjab : Punjab
    • Rajasthan : Karauli districtI,Sawai Madhopur districtR
    • Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
    • Mizoram : Mizoram
    • Andaman and Nicobar Islands : Andaman Islands
    • Manipur : Manipur
    • Tripura : Tripura
  • Native : Andaman Islands, Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • World Distribution : Andaman Islands, Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Literature :
    • H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4
    • R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District
    • R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District
    • B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons
    • Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983
    • Pullaiah, 1997. Fl. Andhra Pradesh, vol. 3. pp. 951
    • Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
    • Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan
    • Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 – Flora of Bangalore District
    • Seetharam et al., 2000 – Flora of Gulbarga District
    • Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District
    • Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg District
    • Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere District
    • H J, Chowdhery, et al. Materials for Flora of Arunachal Pradesh. Volume 3, Botanical Survey of India, 2009. Pg.: 225
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Phoenix sylvestris. Downloaded on 15 October 2024.

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