Buchanania barberi

IUCN Red List Status: Critically Endangered (CR)

Buchanania barberi Gamble, Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1916: 135 1916.;

Medium sized trees, to 20 m high, bark dark brown with vertical deep fissures and horizontal cracks. Leaves simple, alternate, estipulate; petiole 8-10 mm, slender; lamina 8-13 x 3-5 cm, elliptic, boradly ovate, oblong, obovate or elliptic-oblong, base attenuate or cuneate, apex obtuse or acute, margin entire, rusty villous beneath when young, coriaceous; lateral nerves 16-20 pairs, parallel, prominent. Flowers bisexual, small, white in terminal and axillary rusty villous panicles of 10 cm long; bract and bracteoles ovate-acute; pedicel 2-3 mm long; calyx short; lobes acute, villous, persistence, imbricate; petals 4-5, 2.5 cm long, oblong, acute, glabrous; stamens 8-10, inserted at the base of the disc, 1 mm long; filaments slender; disc thick, crenulate; carpels 5-6, free, seated in the cavity of disc; only 1 fertile, 1 mm long, villous at base, ovule 1, pendulous. Fruit a drupe.

Flowering and fruiting: November-January

Semi-evergreen forests and sacred groves

Southern Western Ghats (endemic)

(Attributions- Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi from India Biodiversity Portal)

Known only from the type locality at Nadari, Travancore District. India (Kerala)

A hill forest species.

Citation:

World Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1998. Buchanania barberi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1998: e.T31181A9605573. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.1998.RLTS.T31181A9605573.en. Downloaded on 25 January 2016.

IUCN REDLISTED (IUCN 2007) SPECIES IN SOUTH INDIA- postings requested for Anarcardiaceae – indiantreepix | Google Groups : 2 posts by 2 authors.

I have uploaded it on Indiantreepix under File section at home page: http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix?hl=en

I am requesting members to post their pictures etc. for Anarcardiaceae today/ coming days from the list given below. I could not find any of these species in Indiantreepix Database. This will help in highlighting such species & knowing more about them:

Sl No	Botanical Name	Family	Status
	Buchanania barberi Gamble*	Anacardiaceae	Critically Endangered
	Nothopegia aureo-fulva Bedd. ex Hook.f.*	Anacardiaceae	Critically Endangered
	Nothopegia beddomei Gamble var. wynadica Ellis & Cahndrab.*	Anacardiaceae	Endangered
	Gluta travancorica Bedd.*	Anacardiaceae	Lower Risk: near threatened
	Nothopegia heyneana (Hook.f.) Gamble*	Anacardiaceae	Lower Risk: near threatened
	Nothopegia castanaefolia )Roth.) Dingston	Anacardiaceae	Critically Endangered
	Semecarpus auriculata Bedd.*	Anacardiaceae	Lower Risk: near threatened
	Buchanania lanceolata W.*	Anacardiaceae	Vulnerable

Image by E S SANTHOSH KUMAR (Inserted by J.M.Garg)

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This is Buchanania barberi Gamble, a critically endangered and endemic species of Kerala. This species was originally collected by C A Barber from Nadayarai in Quilon district of Kerala based on which J S Gamble published it as a new species.

It was rediscovered by our team after 8 decades from a different locality and the type locality was totally converted into habitation areas.

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References:

The Plant List Ver.1.1
Rediscovery of Buchanania barberi Gamble, an endangered and endemic species from the Western Ghats BSI Flora of India India Biodiversity Portal Kerala plants Wikipedia IUCN Red List (CR)

Updated on December 24, 2024

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