Flowering class: Dicot
Habit: Shrub to Small Tree
Commiphora berryi (Arn.) Engl.
🗒 Synonyms
synonym | Amyris gileadensis Roxb. |
synonym | Balsamea berryi Engl. |
synonym | Balsamea gileadensis (Kunth) Oken |
synonym | Balsamodendrum berryanum Voigt |
synonym | Balsamodendrum berryi Arn. |
synonym | Protium gileadense (Roxb.) Wight & Arn. |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
Trees, to 10 m high, bark reddish-brown or grey; blaze pink-red; branchlets spine-tipped. Leaves 3-foliate, alternate, clustered; estipulate; rachis 6-14 mm, slender, grooved above, flattened at base, pubescent; leaflets opposite, sessile, laterals smaller, terminal larger; lamina 0.6-2 x 1.2-2 cm, ovate-obovate, obovate, ovate or suborbicular, base cuneate or attenuate, apex obtuse, margin crenate or entire, glabrous, chartaceous; lateral nerves 3-5 pairs, pinnate, slender, faint, intercostae reticulate, faint. Flowers small, polygamous, deep red, pink or cream coloured, solitary or fascicled, axillary; calyx narrowly campanulate; lobes 4, shorter than the tube, glabrous; petals 4, oblanceolate, apiculate; stamens 8, free, alternately long and short, inserted on the margin of the disc; filaments subulate; disc small, 6-8 lobed; ovary superior, ovoid, sessile, 2-celled, ovules 2 in each cell; style short; stigma 3-4 lobed; ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit a drupe, 0.8-1.2 x 0.6-0.9 cm, oblong or ovoid-subglobose, beaked; seeds 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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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Morphology
Growth Form
Tree
Field Tips
Leaf fall in February. Wood white. Leaves arising from thorny branches.
Flower
In axillary clusters, white. Flowering in March.
Fruit
A drupe, ovoid to sub globose, red. Seeds 2. Fruiting in April.
Leaf Apices
Obtuse
Leaf arrangement
Alternate
Leaf Bases
Cuneate
Leaf Margins
Crenate
Leaf Shapes
Sub-orbicular
Leaf Types
Trifoliate
Habit
An armed deciduous shrub.
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Occasional on the lower dry deciduous slopes in full sun. Plains, scrub jungle to 900m. Peninsular India.
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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 |
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Description
Global Distribution
South India
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: 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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📚 Occurrence
No Data
📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
Uses
System of Medicines Used In
Siddha
The bark is medicinal. The sap is used to cure mouth ulcers.
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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System Of Medicines Used In
Siddha
FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=7215
Attributions | FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=7215 |
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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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📚 Information Listing
References
- Commiphora berryi (Arn.) Engl. in A. & C. DC., Monogr. Phan. 4: 17. 1883; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 170(122). 1915; V. Chithra & A.N. Henry in Hajra et al., Fl. India 4: 443. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 59. 1999; A.N. Henry & V. Chithra in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 631. 2005.
- Balsamodendron berryi Arn., Ann. Nat. Hist. 3: 86. 1839; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 529. 1875.
- 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=7215
Information Listing > References
- Commiphora berryi (Arn.) Engl. in A. & C. DC., Monogr. Phan. 4: 17. 1883; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 170(122). 1915; V. Chithra & A.N. Henry in Hajra et al., Fl. India 4: 443. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 59. 1999; A.N. Henry & V. Chithra in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 631. 2005.
- Balsamodendron berryi Arn., Ann. Nat. Hist. 3: 86. 1839; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 529. 1875.
- 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=7215
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🐾 Taxonomy
Root | Root |
Kingdom | Plantae |
Phylum | Tracheophyta |
Class | Magnoliopsida |
Order | Sapindales |
Family | Burseraceae |
Genus | Commiphora |
Species | Commiphora berryi (Arn.) Engl. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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