Flowering class: Dicot
Habit: Tree
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Kaukenia roxburghiana (Wight) Kuntze |
| synonym | Mimusops roxburghiana Wight |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
Evergreen trees, to 18 m high, bark brownish-black, rough; blaze pink; latex milky. Leaves simple, alternate spiral, estipulate; petiole 13-25 mm, slender, glabrous; lamina 5-7 x 3-4.5 cm, oblong, elliptic, base rounded, apex obtuse or emarginate, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; lateral nerves many, pinnate, faint; midrib raised below; intercostae reticulate. Flowers bisexual, white, axillary or terminal, 2-5 together; pedicel to 3 cm long; calyx lobes 6, sepals 9 x 4 mm, ovate, hirsute; corolla lobes 18-24, 1 cm long; stamens 6, attached to the corolla tube; filaments short; anthers 3 mm; staminodes alternate with stamens, fimbriate, long, lanceolate, glabrous; ovary 2 mm, superior, villous at base, 6-celled; style 15 mm, subulate. Fruit a berry, 2 cm long, globose, depressed; seeds 3-6.
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Habit: Tree
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Miscellaneous Details
Notes: Western Ghats, Evergreen Forests. Endemic to Southern Western Ghats
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Dry deciduous forests
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Description
Kerala: Idukki
Tamil Nadu: Coimbatore, Kanniyakumari, Nilgiri, Tirunelveli, Tiruvannamalai
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Global Distribution
Southern Western Ghats
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: Idukki
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Endemic Distribution
Southern Western Ghats
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
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📚 Occurrence
No Data
📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
📚 Information Listing
References
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. II, 1987
- Mimusops roxburghiana Wight, Ic. t. 1588.1850; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 3:548.1882; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 766(538). 1921.
- Manilkara roxburghiana (Wight) Dubard, Ann. Inst. Bot. Geol. Colon. Marseille 23: 10. f.3. 1915; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 179. 1999.
Information Listing > References
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. II, 1987
- Mimusops roxburghiana Wight, Ic. t. 1588.1850; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 3:548.1882; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 766(538). 1921.
- Manilkara roxburghiana (Wight) Dubard, Ann. Inst. Bot. Geol. Colon. Marseille 23: 10. f.3. 1915; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 179. 1999.
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Equisetopsida C. Agardh |
| Order | Ericales Bercht. & J. Presl |
| Family | Sapotaceae |
| Genus | Manilkara |
| Species | Manilkara roxburghiana (Wight) Dubard |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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