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Saraca asoca (Roxb.)Willd.

Accepted
Habit
Habit
Flower
Flower
Venation
Venation
Young leaves
Young leaves
Flowering branch
Flowering branch
Leaflets
Leaflets
Bark
Bark
Flowers
Flowers
Stipule
Stipule
Flowering branch
Flowering branch
Flower bud
Flower bud
Leaflets
Leaflets
Inflorescence insertion
Inflorescence insertion
Fruit insertion
Fruit insertion
Flower bud
Flower bud
Bark cut
Bark cut
Petiolule insertion
Petiolule insertion
Habit
Flower
Venation
Young leaves
Flowering branch
Leaflets
Bark
Flowers
Stipule
Flowering branch
Flower bud
Leaflets
Inflorescence insertion
Fruit insertion
Flower bud
Bark cut
Petiolule insertion
🗒 Synonyms
synonymJonesia asoca Roxb.
synonymSaraca indica Sensu Bedd., non L.
🗒 Common Names
Assamese
  • Ahok
  • Ashok
  • Ashok-goch
English
  • Ashokam
  • Ashok tree
Gujarati
  • Ashopalava
Hindi
  • Ashok अशोक
  • सीता अशोक Sita Ashok
Kannada
  • Achenge
Karbi
  • Mir krem
Malayalam
  • Ashokam.
  • Hemapushpam
Marathi
  • Jasundi
Other
  • Sita Ashok
  • Sorrowless Tree
Tamil
  • Ashoka Tree.
  • அசோகம் Asogam
Telugu
  • Asokamu
📚 Overview
Overview
Summary
Tree
Dr. Chandra Barooah & Iftikher Ahmed (2014) Assam Science Technology and Environment Council.
Attributions Dr. Chandra Barooah & Iftikher Ahmed (2014) Assam Science Technology and Environment Council.
Contributors 
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Status UNDER_CREATION
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References 
    Understorey tree along stream in evergreen to semi-evergreen forests up to 600 m.
    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 
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      Diagnostic Keys
      Description
      Habit

      Small trees, up to 5 m tall.

      Trunk & Bark

      Trunk often tubercled; bark lenticellate, dark, shallowly fissured; blaze purplish.

      Branches and Branchlets

      Branchlets terete, glabrous.

      Leaves

      Leaves compound, paripinnate, alternate, distichous; stipules caducous; rachis pulvinate, 7-30 cm long; petiolule 0.1-0.6 cm long; leaflets opposite, 4-6 (-12) pairs, lamina 6-31 x 1.5-9 cm, narrow elliptic-oblong or lanceolate, apex acute to acuminate, base acute to rounded or subcordate, subcoriaceous, glabrous; midrib raised above; secondary nerves ca. 11 pairs, looped; tertiary nerves reticulate.

      Inflorescence / Flower

      Inflorescence dense corymbs; flowers orange, sometimes white; fragrant.

      Fruit and Seed

      Pod, flat, oblong, to 15 x 4.5 cm, apiculate; seeds obovate-orbiculate.

      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
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      References 
        Habit: Shrub to 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
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          📚 Natural History
          Morphology

          Growth Form

          Tree
          Tree
          A middle sized handsome tree. Leaves paripinnate, glabrous, leaflets 4-5 pairs, 10- 20 cm long, margin slightly wavy. Flowers are fragrant, orange scarlet in terminal or axillary racemes. Pods are 5 - 10 inch compresed, tapering at the both ends. Very beautiful tree when flowers. The purplish pink new leaves appear at the intervals
          Wild edible plants of Assam. by Sri Brahmananda Patiri and Sri Ananta Borah, published by the Director Forest Communication, Forest Department, Assam. Curated for upload by Pranjal Mahananda.
          Attributions Wild edible plants of Assam. by Sri Brahmananda Patiri and Sri Ananta Borah, published by the Director Forest Communication, Forest Department, Assam. Curated for upload by Pranjal Mahananda.
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            Ecology
            Understorey tree along stream in evergreen to semi-evergreen forests up to 600 m.
            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
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              Miscellaneous Details
              Notes: Evergreen forests. Also grown as ornamental.
              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
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                📚 Habitat and Distribution
                General Habitat

                Habitat

                Terrestrial
                Terrestrial
                Semi evergreen forests, cultivated
                Dr. Chandra Barooah & Iftikher Ahmed (2014) Assam Science Technology and Environment Council.
                Attributions Dr. Chandra Barooah & Iftikher Ahmed (2014) Assam Science Technology and Environment Council.
                Contributors 
                Status UNDER_CREATION
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                  Description
                  India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar; in the Western Ghats- South, Central and South Maharashtra part of Sahyadris.
                  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
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                    Maharashtra: Kolhapur, Pune, Raigad, Ratnagiri, Satara, Thane Kerala: All districts
                    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
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                    References 
                      Global Distribution

                      India: Andaman & Nicobar Island, Assam, Madhya Pradesh, Peninsular India; Sri Lanka

                      Indian Distribution

                      Barak Valley, Nagaon, Eastern Assam

                      Dr. Chandra Barooah & Iftikher Ahmed (2014) Assam Science Technology and Environment Council.
                      Attributions Dr. Chandra Barooah & Iftikher Ahmed (2014) Assam Science Technology and Environment Council.
                      Contributors 
                      Status UNDER_CREATION
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                        📚 Occurrence
                        No Data
                        📚 Uses and Management
                        Uses

                        System of Medicines Used In

                        Homoeopathy
                        Homoeopathy
                        Ayurveda
                        Ayurveda
                        Folk medicine
                        Folk medicine
                        Siddha
                        Siddha
                        System Of Medicines Used In

                        Ayurveda, Folk medicine, Homoeopathy, Folk medicine, Siddha

                        FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=1857
                        Attributions FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=1857
                        Contributors 
                        Status UNDER_CREATION
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                        References 
                          Although it is considered highly medicinal Karbis use to chew the fruit as substitute for arecanut. Usually planted for ornamental purposes
                          Wild edible plants of Assam. by Sri Brahmananda Patiri and Sri Ananta Borah, published by the Director Forest Communication, Forest Department, Assam. Curated for upload by Pranjal Mahananda.
                          Attributions Wild edible plants of Assam. by Sri Brahmananda Patiri and Sri Ananta Borah, published by the Director Forest Communication, Forest Department, Assam. Curated for upload by Pranjal Mahananda.
                          Contributors 
                          Status UNDER_CREATION
                          Licenses CC_BY
                          References 
                            No Data
                            📚 Information Listing
                            References
                            1. Blumea 15: 393. 1968; Gamble, Fl. Madras 1: 409. 1997 (re. ed); Sasidharan, Biodiversity documentation for Kerala- Flowering Plants, part 6: 156. 2004; Cook, Fl. Bombay 1: 429. 1902; Saldanha, Fl. Karnataka 1: 393. 1996.
                            1. 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=1857
                            1. Biodiversity Documentation for Kerala Part 6: Flowering Plants, N. Sasidharan, 2004, Flora of Kolhapur District, Yadav S. R & Sardesai M. M, 2002, Flora of Maharastra State Dicotyledones, Vol I, Lakshminarasimhan P. & Prasanna P. V, 2000
                            Information Listing > References
                            1. Blumea 15: 393. 1968; Gamble, Fl. Madras 1: 409. 1997 (re. ed); Sasidharan, Biodiversity documentation for Kerala- Flowering Plants, part 6: 156. 2004; Cook, Fl. Bombay 1: 429. 1902; Saldanha, Fl. Karnataka 1: 393. 1996.
                            2. 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=1857
                            3. Biodiversity Documentation for Kerala Part 6: Flowering Plants, N. Sasidharan, 2004, Flora of Kolhapur District, Yadav S. R & Sardesai M. M, 2002, Flora of Maharastra State Dicotyledones, Vol I, Lakshminarasimhan P. & Prasanna P. V, 2000

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                            📚 Meta data
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                            🐾 Taxonomy
                            RootRoot
                            KingdomPlantae
                            PhylumTracheophyta
                            ClassEquisetopsida C. Agardh
                            OrderFabales
                            FamilyFabaceae
                            GenusSaraca
                            SpeciesSaraca asoca (Roxb.) Willd.
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