Flowering class: Dicot
Habit: Tree
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Aglaia congylos A.J.G.H. Kostermans |
| synonym | Milnea apiocarpa Thw. |
🗒 Common Names
| No Data |
📚 Overview
Description
Young leaves scaly
Leaflet upper side
Leaflet lower side
Habit
Tree buttressed, up to 20 m tall.
Trunk & Bark
Bark pale pinkish-brown, scaly; blaze reddish.
Branches and Branchlets
Branchlets terete, densely covered with reddish-brown peltate and fimbriate margin scales, lenticellate.
Exudates
Latex white, not profuse.
Leaves
Leaves compound, pinnate, up to 42 cm long and 26 cm wide, alternate, spiral; petiole 15 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, covered with scales, glabrescent; petiolules 0.2-1.2 cm long on lateral leaflets, up to 1.6 cm on terminal leaflet; leaflets (3-) 5-9, laterals usually subopposite, rarely alternate, lamina 4-20.5 x 1-7 cm, broadly elliptic, apex acuminate with blunt tip, base cuneate, coriaceous, margin recurved, young leaves completely covered with peltate scales, midrib and nerves with peltate scales on both sides, scarcely peltate scaly beneath when mature; secondary nerves 7-10 pairs, not prominent; tertiary nerves broadly reticulate.
Inflorescence / Flower
Flowers unisexual; inflorescence panicle, densely lepidote scaly; male inflorescence 9-26 cm long; female inflorescence 5.5 cm long
Fruit and Seed
Berry, 4 cm long, obovoid or subglobose, apiculate, reddish, 2 locular; seeds 1.
B. R. Ramesh, N. Ayyappan, Pierre Grard, Juliana Prosperi, S. Aravajy, Jean Pierre Pascal, The Biotik Team, French Institute of Pondicherry.
| Attributions | B. R. Ramesh, N. Ayyappan, Pierre Grard, Juliana Prosperi, S. Aravajy, Jean Pierre Pascal, The Biotik Team, French Institute of Pondicherry. |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Trees, to 20 m high; young parts and leaves densely covered with dark brown fimbriate scales. Leaves imparipinnate, alternate, estipulate; rachis 3-20 cm long, stout, swollen at base, covered with peltate scales, grooved above; leaflets 5-7, opposite or subopposite, estipellate; petiolule 4-12 mm long, stout, grooved above, covered with peltate scales; lamina 5-10 x 2-3.5 cm, obovate, elliptic-obovate or elliptic-oblong, base obliquely acute, apex acute, margin entire, coriaceous, covered with peltate scales when young, almost glabrous and foveolate, except along midrib beneath; lateral nerves 6-10 pairs, pinnate, slender, faint, intercostae obscure. Flowers polygamo-dioecous, yellow, in lax axillary racemosely branched, densely rusty-lepidote, panicles; peduncles 20 cm long; pedicel 1-2 mm long, stout, lepidote; calyx ca.1.5 mm long, thick, lobes 5, densely lepidote; petals 5, oblong, to 2.5 mm long, lepidote; stamens 5, connate to form a staminal tube; anthers 5, slightly exserted; ovary superior, globose, lepidote, 1-2-celled, ovules one in each cell. Fruit a berry, 1.5 x 1.3 cm, obovoid, ridged, densely scaly.
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 |
Habit: Small 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 |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
No Data
📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Miscellaneous Details
Notes: Western Ghats, Evergreen Forests
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 |
No Data
📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Habitat
Terrestrial
Shola 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
Global Distribution
South India and Sri Lanka
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 |
South India and Sri Lanka
B. R. Ramesh, N. Ayyappan, Pierre Grard, Juliana Prosperi, S. Aravajy, Jean Pierre Pascal, The Biotik Team, French Institute of Pondicherry.
| Attributions | B. R. Ramesh, N. Ayyappan, Pierre Grard, Juliana Prosperi, S. Aravajy, Jean Pierre Pascal, The Biotik Team, French Institute of Pondicherry. |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Kerala: Idukki
Tamil Nadu: Coimbatore
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 |
No Data
📚 Occurrence
No Data
📚 Demography and Conservation
Conservation Status
IUCN Red List Category
Vulnerable
Vulnerable
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 |
No Data
📚 Uses and Management
📚 Information Listing
References
- Milnea apiocarpa Thw., Enum. Pl. Zeyl. 60. 1858.
- Aglaia congylos Kosterm., Acta Bot. Neerl. 31: 130. 1982.
- Aglaia apiocarpa (Thw.) Hiern in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 555. 1875; Pannell, Kew Bull. Addl. ser. 16, 173. 1992; S.S. Jain & S.S.R. Bennet in Hajra et al., Fl. India 4: 457. 1997; Swarup. et al., Shola For. Kerala 59. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 57. 1998.
- Hooker, Fl. Brit.India.1: 555. 1875; Pannell, A taxonomic monograph of the Genus <i>Aglaia</i> Lour. (Meliaceae), 173. 1992.
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. I, 1983,Biodiversity Documentation for Kerala Part 6: Flowering Plants, N. Sasidharan
Information Listing > References
- Milnea apiocarpa Thw., Enum. Pl. Zeyl. 60. 1858.
- Aglaia congylos Kosterm., Acta Bot. Neerl. 31: 130. 1982.
- Aglaia apiocarpa (Thw.) Hiern in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 555. 1875; Pannell, Kew Bull. Addl. ser. 16, 173. 1992; S.S. Jain & S.S.R. Bennet in Hajra et al., Fl. India 4: 457. 1997; Swarup. et al., Shola For. Kerala 59. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 57. 1998.
- Hooker, Fl. Brit.India.1: 555. 1875; Pannell, A taxonomic monograph of the Genus <i>Aglaia</i> Lour. (Meliaceae), 173. 1992.
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. I, 1983,Biodiversity Documentation for Kerala Part 6: Flowering Plants, N. Sasidharan
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Sapindales |
| Family | Meliaceae |
| Genus | Aglaia |
| Species | Aglaia apiocarpa (Thw.) Hiern |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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