Flowering class: Dicot
Habit: Tree
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Canthium dicoccum umbellatum (Wight) Santapau & Merchant |
| synonym | Canthium umbellatum Wight |
| synonym | Canthium umbellulatum Korth. |
| synonym | Plectronia didyma var. umbellata (Wight) Gamble |
| synonym | Plectronia korthalsii K.Schum. |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
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 |
Evergreen trees, bark yellowish-grey, shallowly fissured; blaze pale brown; branchlets tetragonous. Leaves simple, opposite decussate; stipules interpetiolar, connate; petiole 6-10 mm, stout, glabrous; lamina 8-15 x 3-6 cm, elliptic, lanceolate, elliptic-oblong, elliptic-obovate, oblong-lanceolate, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, base acute or attenuate, apex acuminate, caudate-acuminate or obtusely acuminate, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; lateral nerves 3-6 pairs, pinnate, slender, faint; intercostae reticulate, faint. Flowers bisexual, white, in axillary, compact umbels; peduncle 5 mm long, stout; calyx tube short, 5-toothed; corolla tube campanulate; lobes 5, valvate, reflexed; anthers 5, subsessile on the mouth of the corolla; ovary inferior, 2-celled, ovules one in each cell; style columnar; stigma capitate. Fruit a drupe, 1.2 cm long, ovoid, black; pyrenes 1-2.
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
Miscellaneous Details
Notes: Dry to Moist 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 |
| References |
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Moist deciduous forests and sacred groves
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
Indo-Malesia and China
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: Palakkad, Alappuzha, Idukki, Pathanamthitta, Kannur, Thiruvananthapuram, Thrissur, Wayanad
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 |
Kerala: Alapuzha, Idukki, Kannur, Palakkad, Pathanamthitta,Thiruvananthapuram, Thrissur
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 |
| 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
- Plectronia didyma (Gaertn. f.) Kurz var. umbellata (Wight) Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 624(440). 1921.
- Psydrax umbellata (Wight) Bridson, Kew Bull. 48: 762. 1993; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 161. 2002.
- Canthium dicoccum (Gaertn.) Teijsm. & Binn. var. umbellatum (Wight) Sant. & Merch., Bull. Bot. Surv. India 3: 107. 1961; Manilal, Fl. Silent Valley 129. 1988; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 212. 1988; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 229. 1990; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 223. 1994; Sasidh. et al., Bot. Stud. Med. Pl. Kerala 25, 33; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 217. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 147. 1999; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 248. 2005; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 342. 2009.
- Canthium umbellatum Wight, Ic. t. 1034. 1845; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 3: 132. 1880.
Information Listing > References
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. II, 1987
- Plectronia didyma (Gaertn. f.) Kurz var. umbellata (Wight) Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 624(440). 1921.
- Psydrax umbellata (Wight) Bridson, Kew Bull. 48: 762. 1993; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 161. 2002.
- Canthium dicoccum (Gaertn.) Teijsm. & Binn. var. umbellatum (Wight) Sant. & Merch., Bull. Bot. Surv. India 3: 107. 1961; Manilal, Fl. Silent Valley 129. 1988; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 212. 1988; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 229. 1990; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 223. 1994; Sasidh. et al., Bot. Stud. Med. Pl. Kerala 25, 33; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 217. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 147. 1999; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 248. 2005; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 342. 2009.
- Canthium umbellatum Wight, Ic. t. 1034. 1845; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 3: 132. 1880.
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Gentianales |
| Family | Rubiaceae |
| Genus | Psydrax |
| Species | Psydrax umbellata (Wight) Bridson |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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