CR (Critically Endagered) as per POWO;
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Dialium travancoricum Bourd., Indian Forester 30: 243 (1904);
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SW. India as POWO;
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Evergreen trees, to 30 m high, bark pale brown, smooth, blaze yellow turning to pale brown, exudation red, scanty. Leaves imparipinnate, alternate; stipules small, lateral; rachis 10-15 cm, slender, glabrous, pulvinate; leaflets 5-11, subopposite or alternate, estipellate; petiolule 4-7 mm, slender; lamina 5-7.6 x 1.8-3.2 cm, ovate, ovate-lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, base round or acute, apex caudate-acuminate, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous, lateral nerves 11-14 pairs, pinnate, prominent, regular, secondary laterals seen; intercostae reticulate. Flowers bisexual, 2-3 mm long, brown, in axillary or terminal fulvous-pubescent panicles; bracts and bracteoles small, cauducous; calyx tube short, divided to base; lobes 5, petalloid, imbricate; petals absent; stamens 2, free; filaments short; anthers erect, oblong; ovary half inferior, sessile, oblique, hairy; ovules 2, style subulate; stigma small, terminal. Fruit a pod 2-2.2 cm broad, ovoid, globose, dark velvety-brown, indehiscent, shell thin, brittle; endocarp spongy, red; seed one, more or less compressed, pale brown, thin.
Flowering and fruiting: September-October
Evergreen forests
(Attributions: Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi.
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Dialium travancoricum: 1 high res. image.
Fruit of Dialium travancoricum. Image shared by Thiru. Santhosh Kumar E.S. JNTBGRI, Palode Thiruvananthapuram
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References:
POWO Catalogue of Life GBIF (High resolution specimens) Flora of peninsular India India Flora Online India Biodiversity Portal
Conserving Dialium travancoricum, a Critically Endangered endemic tree– July 2021 Oryx 55(4):491