Flowering class: Dicot
Habit: Tree
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Actinodaphne maderaspatana Bedd. ex Hook.f. |
| synonym | Actinomorphe madraspatana (Bedd. ex Hook. fil.) Kuntze |
| synonym | Jozoste longifolia Kuntze |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
Trees. Leaves 4-8 in a whorl, penninerved, up to 23 x 6 cm, oblong-lanceolate, acute at both ends, glabrous, glaucous beneath, chartaceous; nerves 8-10 pairs, very oblique; petioles .8-1.2 cm long, stout. Flowers small, dioecious, in dense globose silkily tomentose clusters, females very shortly peduncled; bracts imbricate, caducous. Perianth-tube short; lobes 6, subequal. Stamens in male flowers 9, those of the 1st and 2nd row opposite the perianth-lobes, those of the 3rd row opposite those of the 1st, filaments 2-glandular; anthers all oblong, introrse, 4-celled, filaments slender. Staminodes in female flowers also 9, those of the 1st and 2nd rows spathulate or linear, those of the 3rd row linear and 2-glandular. Ovary in female flowers ovoid, attenuate into the style; stigma dilated; in male flowers 0 or a pistillode. Fruit a berry.
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: 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 |
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Miscellaneous Details
Notes: 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 |
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
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 |
| References |
Description
Global Distribution
Peninsular India
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: Kollam
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 |
Karnataka: S. Kanara
Kerala: Kollam
Tamil Nadu: Vellore, Viluppuram
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 |
Endemic Distribution
Western Ghats
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 |
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📚 Occurrence
No Data
📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
📚 Information Listing
References
- Actinodaphne maderaspatana Bedd. ex Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 149. 1886; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1231(861). 1925; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 314. 1995.
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. II, 1987; Gamble 1957
Information Listing > References
- Actinodaphne maderaspatana Bedd. ex Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 149. 1886; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1231(861). 1925; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 314. 1995.
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. II, 1987; Gamble 1957
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Laurales |
| Family | Lauraceae |
| Genus | Actinodaphne |
| Species | Actinodaphne madraspatana Bedd. ex Hook. fil. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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