Flowering class: Dicot
Habit: Tree
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Gardenia lucida Roxb. |
| synonym | Genipa resinifera (Roth) Baill. |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
Trees, to 10 m high, bark 0.85 cm, greenish-grey, exfoliating in irregular flakes flakes; blaze creamy yellow; exudation yellow resinous. Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; stipules intrapetiolar, connate in to a sheath; petiole 3-7 mm, stout, glabrous; lamina 7-18 x 4-8 cm, elliptic, base obtuse, rounded or attenuate, apex obtuse or obtusely acute, margin entire or wavy, glabrous, shiny above, coriaceous; lateral nerves 12-30 pairs, parallel, prominent beneath; intercostae scalariform, slender; domatia present. Flowers bisexual, white turns to yellow in axillary, solitary or in lax cymes; calyx tubular, lobes 5, lanceolate, puberulous without, acuminate; corolla tube 3 cm long, lobes 5, 3 x 2 cm, obovate, puberulous without; stamens 5; anthers exserted, oblong; ovary 6 mm, terete, 8 x 3 mm, inferior, ovules many; style 3.5 cm thick; stigma club shaped. Fruit a berry, 2 x 1.5 cm with crown of calyx, ellipsoid; seeds rugose.
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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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 |
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Miscellaneous Details
Notes: Dry Evergreen to Dry Deciduous 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 |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Open areas, roadsides
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
Global Distribution
India: Assam, Tamil Nadu
Local Distribution
Barak Valley
Global Distribution
India, Bangladesh and Myanmar
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: Palakkad, Idukki, Kozhikkode
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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Maharashtra: Pune, Raigad, Thane
Karnataka: Belgaum, Chikmagalur, Coorg, Hassan,N. Kanara
Kerala: Idukki, Kozhikode, Palakkad
Tamil Nadu: 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 |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Occurrence
No Data
📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
Uses
System of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda
Siddha
Medicinal
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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System Of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda, Siddha
FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=1038
| Attributions | FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=1038 |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Information Listing
References
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. II, 1987
- Gardenia resinifera Roth, Nov. Pl. Sp. 150. 1821; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 144. 1982; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 231. 1990; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 148. 1999; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 148. 2002.
- Gardenia lucida Roxb., Fl. Ind. 1: 707.1832; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 3:115.1880; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 618(436). 1921.
- 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=1038
Information Listing > References
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. II, 1987
- Gardenia resinifera Roth, Nov. Pl. Sp. 150. 1821; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 144. 1982; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 231. 1990; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 148. 1999; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 148. 2002.
- Gardenia lucida Roxb., Fl. Ind. 1: 707.1832; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 3:115.1880; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 618(436). 1921.
- 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=1038
Floristic diversity of the Indian Cardamom Research Institute campus, Myladumpara, Western Ghats, India
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Journal of Threatened TaxaInteresting plant records from Visakhapatnam District, Andhra Pradesh, India
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Gentianales |
| Family | Rubiaceae |
| Genus | Gardenia |
| Species | Gardenia resinifera Roth |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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