Symplocos macrocarpa Wt. ex Clarke ssp. kanarana (Talbot.) Noot. - SYMPLOCACEAE

Synonym : Symplocos kanarana Talbot.

Vernacular names : Malayalam: Malamparala

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Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature

Botanical descriptions :

Habit : Trees up to 10 m tall.
Trunk\bark : Bark thin, smooth, light brown; blaze white.
Branchlets : Branchlets terete, glabrous or slightly pubescent .
Leaves : Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; petiole 0.7-1.1 cm long, canaliculate, glabrous; lamina 6-13 x 2.5-6 cm, elliptic, elliptic - ovate, apex acuminate with blunt tip, base acute, margin crenate, shining above, drying green, coriaceous, glabrous; midrib canaliculate above; secondary nerves 4-8, gradually curved, ascending; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulo-percurrent.
Flowers : Inflorescence axillary racemes; flowers sessile.
Fruit& seed : Drupe cylindric or ellipsoid, to 2.5 x 1.2 cm, seeds with 5-6 deep furrows.

Ecology :

Understorey trees in wet evergreen forest between 500 and 1000 m.

Distribution :

Endemic to the Western_Ghats- occasional in South and Central Sahyadris.

Literature :

Beddome, For. Man. Bot. 150. 1872 & Ic. t. 116. 1868-1874; Gamble, Fl. Madras 2: 782. 1993 (re.ed.); Sasidharan, Biodiversity documentation for Kerala- Flowering Plants, part 6: 273. 2004; Nootboom, Rev. Symplocac. 221. 1975; Saldanha, Fl. Karnataka 1: 34.

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