Flowering class: Dicot
Habit: Tree
Celtis philippensis wightii (Planch.) E. Soepadmo
🗒 Synonyms
synonym | Celtis philippensis var. consimile (Bl.) Leroy |
synonym | Celtis wightii Planch. |
synonym | Solenostigma consimile Bl. |
synonym | Solenostigma wightii (Planch.) Bl. |
🗒 Common Names
Irula |
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📚 Overview
Description
Trees, to 25 m high, bark pale green or grey with black streaks inside, covered with lenticels; blaze speckled with black and yellow; branchlets pubescent. Young foliage pink. Leaves simple, alternate; stipules lateral, elliptic-ovate; petiole 4-15 mm, slender, pubescent; lamina 6-12 x 2-6 cm, ovate, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, base round or acute, apex acuminate, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; 3-nerved from the base, prominent, intercostae scalariform, prominent. Flowers polygamous, yellow, in axillary puberulous cymes, usually on new shoots; male flowers usually at the basal part and female flowers on the upper side; tepals 5, 2 x 1 mm, ovate, concave, ciliate, membranous; stamens 5, free, inserted round a woolly torus; ovary superior, sessile, ovoid, 1 mm, 1-celled; style 8 mm long, pubescent. Fruit a drupe 7 x 5 mm, ovoid, smooth.
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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Habit: Densely foliaceous, medium-sized tree, upto 15m.
Keystone Foundation
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Morphology
Growth Form
Tree
Flower
In short panicles, male flowers at the base and female in the upper axils. Flowering from December-April.
Fruit
An ellipsoid drupe, beaked when young; green to red. Fruiting February onwards.
Field tips
Bark pale green, covered with small lenticels. Leaves 3-nerved from base.
Leaf Arrangement
Alternate -distichous
Leaf Type
Simple
Leaf Shape
Elliptic, oblong-lanceolate
Leaf Apex
Acute
Leaf Base
Rounded
Leaf Margin
Entire
Keystone Foundation
Attributions | Keystone Foundation |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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Miscellaneous Details
Notes: Western Ghats & Eastern Ghats, 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
Dry deciduous and shola 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 |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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Very common in forest foothills to 1200 m. Tropical Africa to Madagascar, India, Indo China and Southeast Asia.
Keystone Foundation
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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Description
Global Distribution
Indo-Malesia to Australia and Tropical Africa
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: Palakkad, Idukki
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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Karnataka: Hassan
Kerala: Idukki, Kollam, Palakkad, Thiruvananthapuram, Thrissur
Tamil Nadu: Dindigul, Theni, Tiruvannamalai
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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Found in deciduous and semi-evergreen forests from plains to 1200m. Common. Tropical Africa to Madagascar, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Indo-China and Malesia to N.Australia.
Keystone Foundation
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Occurrence
No Data
📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
No Data
📚 Information Listing
References
- Celtis philippensis Blanco var. wightii (Planch.) Soep. in Steenis, Fl. Males. ser. 1. 8: 62. 1977; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 294. 1999; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 306. 2002.
- Celtis wightii Planch., Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. ser. 3, 10:307.1848; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 5:483.1888; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1349(944). 1928.
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. II, 1987
Information Listing > References
- Celtis philippensis Blanco var. wightii (Planch.) Soep. in Steenis, Fl. Males. ser. 1. 8: 62. 1977; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 294. 1999; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 306. 2002.
- Celtis wightii Planch., Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. ser. 3, 10:307.1848; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 5:483.1888; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1349(944). 1928.
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. II, 1987
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🐾 Taxonomy
Root | Root |
Kingdom | Plantae |
Phylum | Tracheophyta |
Class | Magnoliopsida |
Order | Rosales |
Family | Cannabaceae |
Genus | Celtis |
Species | Celtis philippensis Blanco |
Infraspecies | Celtis philippensis wightii (Planch.) E. Soepadmo |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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