Shrub/ Tree
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Aesculus chuniana Hu & Fang |
| synonym | Aesculus khasyana (Voigt) C. R. Das & Majumdar |
| synonym | Aesculus lantsangensis Hu & Fang |
| synonym | Aesculus megaphylla Hu & Fang |
| synonym | Aesculus polyneura Hu & Fang |
| synonym | Aesculus polyneura var. dongchuanensis X.W. Li & W.Y. Yin |
| synonym | Aesculus punduana Wall. ex Hiern |
| synonym | Aesculus rupicola Hu & Fang |
| synonym | Aesculus wangii Hu |
| synonym | Aesculus wangii var. rupicola (Hu & Fang) W.P. Fang |
| synonym | Pavia khasyana Voigt |
| synonym | Pavia punduana Wall. ex Voigt |
| synonym | Pawia punduana (Wall. ex Voigt) Kuntze |
🗒 Common Names
| Assamese |
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| English |
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| Garo |
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| Khasi |
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📚 Overview
No Data
📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Cyclicity
Flowering and fruiting : March - August
Compiled from secondary sources listed in references by Poornima Viswanathan for the Assam Biodiversity Portal project.
Flowering: January-May. Fruiting: June-November
French Institute of Pondicherry
| Attributions | French Institute of Pondicherry |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Morphology
Growth Form
Tree
Medium sized trees, with spreading, glabrous, terete branches; bark greyish, warty. Leaves glabrous, petioles upto 30 cm long; leaflets oblanceolate. obovate-elliptic, 14 - 30 x 4.5 - 7 cm, acuminate, finely serrulate, subcoriaceous: petiolules 5 - 15 mm long. Flowers many, in thyrsoid panicles. Calyx 5-lobed. campanulate, 5 - 7 mm long, downy. Petals 4, rarely 5, unequal, clawed, white, often with a yellow spot at base. Stamens slender. Fruit a loculicidal capsule, ovoid, 5 - 6 cm long, leathery, rugose, rusty brown.
Compiled from secondary sources listed in references by Poornima Viswanathan for the Assam Biodiversity Portal project.
Andro-monoecious trees, 8-18 m tall, evergreen; bark smooth to wrinkled, white and green buttressed. Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; petioles ca. 2-6 cm long, slender, terete; lamina ca. 5-18 x 3-7 cm, ovate-elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, rounded-obtuse at base, long acuminate at apex, entire, chartaceous, glaucous beneath; secondary nerves 6-3 pairs. Inflorescence in panicled cymes, ca. 6-12 cm long, corymbose, terminal or lateral, contemporary with leaves, pubescent; Flowers 5-merous, ca. 3-8 mm across, greenish white to yellowish green; sepals ca. 2-4 mm long, linear or lanceolate, outside brabate; petals elliptic-lanceolate, equal to or shorter than sepals; stamens 8, inserted on or inside the disc; ovary densely pubescent. Samaras ca. 1-3 cm long, pale brown, glabrous, 2-winged; wings divergent ca. 2.5 x 0.6-1 cm, constricted at base, closely veined.
French Institute of Pondicherry
| Attributions | French Institute of Pondicherry |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
No Data
📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Streams and ravines, hills
Terrestrial : wet forests, broad-leaved forests, semi-evergreen or mixed deciduous/evergreen broad-leaved forests in limestone hills or mountains, subtropical hill forests, mountain forests, open forests, rocks in forests; 100-2000 masl.
Compiled from secondary sources listed in references by Poornima Viswanathan for the Assam Biodiversity Portal project.
Description
Global Distribution
India: Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, West Bengal, Maharastra
Indian Distribution
Throughout Assam
Global Distribution
China, SE-Tibet, Bangladesh, N-Vietnam, Bhutan, India, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos
Indian Distribution
Sikkim, West Bengal, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Mizoram, Meghalaya
Compiled from secondary sources listed in references by Poornima Viswanathan for the Assam Biodiversity Portal project.
Global Distribution
India, Afghanistan and Myanmar.
Indian Distribution
Sikkim, West Bengal, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Mizoram and Meghalaya.
French Institute of Pondicherry
| Attributions | French Institute of Pondicherry |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
No Data
📚 Occurrence
No Data
📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
Uses
System of Medicines Used In
Folk medicine
System Of Medicines Used In
Folk medicine
FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=3297
| Attributions | FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=3297 |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Ornamental. The wood is used for making vases, plates, cups and toys. Used in fishing - the tree bark is poisonous to fish
Compiled from secondary sources listed in references by Poornima Viswanathan for the Assam Biodiversity Portal project.
The wood is used for making vases, plates, cups and toys.
French Institute of Pondicherry
| Attributions | French Institute of Pondicherry |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
No Data
📚 Information Listing
References
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=3297
- Botanical Survey of India. http://efloraindia.nic.in/efloraindia/taxonList.action?id=4678&type=4 (Accessed on 25 April 2018)
- JSTOR - Global Plants database. https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.k000640854 (Accessed on 25 April 2018)
- Plants of the World Online. http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:781579-1 (Accessed on 25 Aril 2018)
- T. Pullaiah, K. V. Krishnamurthy, Bir Bahadur. 2017. Ethnobotany of India, Volume 3: North-East India and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. CRC Press/Apple Academic Press Inc., Ontario, New Jersey. 394p. ISBN 1315341611, 9781315341613
- Flora of China. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200013156 (Accessed on 25 April 2018)
- Flowers of India. https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/East%20Himalayan%20Horse%20Chestnut.html (Accessed on 25 April 2018)
- Zhang, Z., S. Li and X. Lian, 2010. An overview of the genus Aesculus L.: Ethnobotany, phytochemistry and pharmacological activities. Pharm. Crops, 1: 24-51. https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/agriculture_facultypubs/9
- Singh, N.P., Singh, K.P., Singh, D.K. 2002. Flora of Mizoram: Vol. I: 399 Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta.
- Singh, N.P., Vohra, J.N., Hajra, P.K., Singh, D.K. 2000. Flora of India: Vol. V: 389 Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta
Information Listing > References
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=3297
- Botanical Survey of India. http://efloraindia.nic.in/efloraindia/taxonList.action?id=4678&type=4 (Accessed on 25 April 2018)
- JSTOR - Global Plants database. https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.k000640854 (Accessed on 25 April 2018)
- Plants of the World Online. http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:781579-1 (Accessed on 25 Aril 2018)
- T. Pullaiah, K. V. Krishnamurthy, Bir Bahadur. 2017. Ethnobotany of India, Volume 3: North-East India and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. CRC Press/Apple Academic Press Inc., Ontario, New Jersey. 394p. ISBN 1315341611, 9781315341613
- Flora of China. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200013156 (Accessed on 25 April 2018)
- Flowers of India. https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/East%20Himalayan%20Horse%20Chestnut.html (Accessed on 25 April 2018)
- Zhang, Z., S. Li and X. Lian, 2010. An overview of the genus Aesculus L.: Ethnobotany, phytochemistry and pharmacological activities. Pharm. Crops, 1: 24-51. https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/agriculture_facultypubs/9
- Singh, N.P., Singh, K.P., Singh, D.K. 2002. Flora of Mizoram: Vol. I: 399 Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta.
- Singh, N.P., Vohra, J.N., Hajra, P.K., Singh, D.K. 2000. Flora of India: Vol. V: 389 Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Sapindales |
| Family | Sapindaceae |
| Genus | Aesculus |
| Species | Aesculus assamica Griff. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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