Flowering class: Dicot
Habit: Tree
Crateva magna (Lour.) DC.
🗒 Synonyms
synonym | Capparis magna Lour. |
synonym | Crateva lophosperma Kurz |
synonym | Crateva nurvala Buch.-Ham. |
synonym | Triclanthera corymbosa Rafin. |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
Trees, to 10 m high, bark 2-3 mm thick, surface grey, smooth, longitudinally wrinkled; blaze dull yellow. Leaves digitately trifoliate, alternate, estipulate; rachis 4-12 cm long, slender, grooved above, glabrous; petiolule 4-7 mm long, slender; leaflets 10-20 x 3.5-6 cm, unequal, ovate, ovate-lanceolate or broadly elliptic, base acute, or subacute, apex acute or acuminate, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; lateral nerves 9-15 pairs, slender, parallel, prominent, intercostae reticulate, faint. Flowers bisexual, creamy white, in terminal corymbs; pedicel to 5 cm long; sepals 4, 3 mm long, free, oblong, adnate to the lobed disc; petals 4, ca. 2 cm long, creamy white, often tinged with purple, long-clawed, obovate; disc incurved, nectariferous; stamens many, free, longer than the petals, inserted at the base of gynophore; anthers basifixed, filaments spreading; gynophore 4-5 cm long at anthesis, slender; ovary superior, ellipsoid, 1-[2]-celled, ovules many; stigma sessile, capitate. Fruit a berry, globose or ovoid, yellowish-grey, rind woody, scurfy, 4-5 x 2.5-3.5 cm; seeds brown, embedded in pulp.
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 |
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
River banks in semi-evergreen 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 |
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Description
Global Distribution
Indo-Malesia and China
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: All Districts
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 |
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📚 Occurrence
No Data
📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
📚 Information Listing
References
- Crataeva religiosa var. nurvala (Buch.-Ham.) Hook. f. & Thoms. in Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 172. 1872.
- Capparis magna Lour., Fl. Cochinch. 330. 1790.
- Crataeva magna (Lour.) DC., Prodr. 1: 243. 1824; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 71. 1984; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 63. 1985; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 47. 1988; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 65. 1989; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 58. 1990; Sundararagh. in B.D. Sharma & N.P. Balakr., Fl. India 2: 324. 1993; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 42. 1996; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 54. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 16. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 14. 2002; R. Sundara. & N.P. Balakr. in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 248. 2005; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 94. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 117. 2009.
- Crataeva nurvala Buch.-Ham., Trans. Linn. Soc. London 15: 121. 1827; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 32. 1982; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 56. 2005.
- Crataeva adansonii DC. ssp. odora sensu Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 32. 1982, non (Buch.-Ham.) Jacobs, 1964.
Information Listing > References
- Crataeva religiosa var. nurvala (Buch.-Ham.) Hook. f. & Thoms. in Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 172. 1872.
- Capparis magna Lour., Fl. Cochinch. 330. 1790.
- Crataeva magna (Lour.) DC., Prodr. 1: 243. 1824; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 71. 1984; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 63. 1985; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 47. 1988; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 65. 1989; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 58. 1990; Sundararagh. in B.D. Sharma & N.P. Balakr., Fl. India 2: 324. 1993; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 42. 1996; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 54. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 16. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 14. 2002; R. Sundara. & N.P. Balakr. in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 248. 2005; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 94. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 117. 2009.
- Crataeva nurvala Buch.-Ham., Trans. Linn. Soc. London 15: 121. 1827; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 32. 1982; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 56. 2005.
- Crataeva adansonii DC. ssp. odora sensu Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 32. 1982, non (Buch.-Ham.) Jacobs, 1964.
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🐾 Taxonomy
Root | Root |
Kingdom | Plantae |
Phylum | Tracheophyta |
Class | Magnoliopsida |
Order | Capparales |
Family | Capparaceae |
Genus | Crateva |
Species | Crateva magna (Lour.) DC. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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