Pterygota alata (Roxb.) R. Br.
synonym | Clompanus alata (Roxb.) Kuntze |
synonym | Pterygota roxburghii Schott & Endl. |
synonym | Sterculia alata Roxb. |
synonym | Sterculia coccinea Wall. |
synonym | Sterculia heynei Bedd. |
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Attributions | B. R. Ramesh, N. Ayyappan, Pierre Grard, Juliana Prosperi, S. Aravajy, Jean Pierre Pascal, The Biotik Team, French Institute of Pondicherry. |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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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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Habit
Large deciduous trees, buttressed, up to 30 m tall.
Trunk\bark
Bark grey, longitudinally arranged lenticels; blaze yellowish cream.
Branchlets
Young branchlets stout, terete, dense golden-brown stellate pubescence, later glabrous.
Leaves
Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, clutered at twig ends; stipules lateral, caducous and leaving scar; petiole 5-10 cm long, terete, swollen at apex, glabrous; lamina 10-20 (-30) x 7.6-14 (-20) cm, broadly ovate or oblong-ovate, apex acute or slightly acuminate, base cordate or subtruncate, margin entire or slightly undulate, thinly coriaceous, glabrous; midrib raised above; 5-nerved at base; secondary nerves 3-4 pairs ascending, raised above; tertiary nerves distantly reticulo-percurrent.
Flowers
Inflorescence short axillary panicle, on old wood, rusty brown tomentose; flowers polygamous.
Fruit& seed
Follicles of 3-5, to 12.5 x 9 cm, globose or ovoid, woody; seeds ca. 30, winged.
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 |
Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
Contributors | |
Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
References |
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 |
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 |
Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
Contributors | |
Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
References |
Global Distribution
South Asia and Myanmar
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: Palakkad, Kollam, Idukki, Pathanamthitta, Malappuram, Thrissur, Kozhikkode, Wayanad
Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
Contributors | |
Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
References |
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 |
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 |
Global Distribution
India: Assam, Uttar Pradesh
Indian Distribution
Throughout Assam
System of Medicines Used In
System Of Medicines Used In
Folk medicine
Attributions | FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=4940 |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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- Sterculia heynei Bedd., Fl. Sylv. t. 230.1874.
- Sterculia alata Roxb., Pl. Corom. t. 287. 1820; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 360. 1874.
- Pterygota alata (Roxb.) R. Br. in Bennett & Br., Pl. Jav. Rar. 234. 1844; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 104(75). 1915; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 95. 1984; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 91. 1990; K.C. Malick in B.D. Sharma & Sanjappa, Fl. India 3: 455. 1993; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 69. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Shenduruny WLS 43. 1997; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 102. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 37. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 34. 2002; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 96. 2005; V. Chithra in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 469. 2005; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 165. 2009.
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. I, 1983, Biodiversity Documentation for Kerala Part 6: Flowering Plants, N. Sasidharan, 2004, Flora of Karnataka, Sharma B. D, 1984, Flora of Maharastra State Dicotyledones, Vol I, Lakshminarasimhan P. & Prasanna P. V, 2000
- 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=4940
- Sterculia heynei Bedd., Fl. Sylv. t. 230.1874.
- Sterculia alata Roxb., Pl. Corom. t. 287. 1820; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 360. 1874.
- Pterygota alata (Roxb.) R. Br. in Bennett & Br., Pl. Jav. Rar. 234. 1844; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 104(75). 1915; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 95. 1984; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 91. 1990; K.C. Malick in B.D. Sharma & Sanjappa, Fl. India 3: 455. 1993; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 69. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Shenduruny WLS 43. 1997; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 102. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 37. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 34. 2002; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 96. 2005; V. Chithra in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 469. 2005; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 165. 2009.
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. I, 1983, Biodiversity Documentation for Kerala Part 6: Flowering Plants, N. Sasidharan, 2004, Flora of Karnataka, Sharma B. D, 1984, Flora of Maharastra State Dicotyledones, Vol I, Lakshminarasimhan P. & Prasanna P. V, 2000
- 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=4940
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Root | Root |
Kingdom | Plantae |
Phylum | Tracheophyta |
Class | Equisetopsida C. Agardh |
Order | Malvales Juss. |
Family | Malvaceae Juss. |
Genus | Pterygota |
Species | Pterygota alata (Roxb.) R. Br. |