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Litsea coriacea Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 166 1886. ;
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LIT-see-a — Chinese litse or Ii, meaning small, little … Dave’s Botanary
kor-ee-uh-KEE-uh — leathery … Dave’s Botanary . commonly known as: leather-leaf litsea • Kannada: ಎರ್ಚಿಕೂಟಿ erchikooti, ಮುಜ muja • Malayalam: മരവെട്ടിത്താളി maravettithaali, പന്നിത്താളി pannithaali, വെട്ടിത്താളി vettithaali • Tamil: பன்னித்தழை pannittalai • Tulu: ಎರ್ಚಿಕೂಟಿ erchikooti Names further compiled / updated at https://dineshvalke.blogspot.com/2023/08/litsea-coriacea-bheyne-ex-nees-hookf.html .
Dioecious trees, to 12 m high, bark pale brown, thinly scaly; branchlets puberulous, rather slender. Leaves simple, alternate, estipulate; petiole 5-10 mm long, slender, pubescent; lamina 8.5-17.5 x 2.5-7.5 cm, elliptic-lanceolate or elliptic-ovate, base acute or cuneate, apex acute or acuminate, margin entire, coriaceous, glabrous above, minutely puberulous beneath; lateral nerves 6-9 pairs, pinnate, slender, prominent, intercostae reticulate, obscure. Flowers unisexual, white, in 4-flowered axillary, subsessile, crowded, umbels; bracts 4, silky; perianth tube funnel shaped, finely silky, lobes 6; stamens 12, in 4 rows; those of rows 1 and 2 usually eglandular, glands of those opposite to tepals very large; staminodes in female flowers as the stamens of males, but those of inner rows subulate and 2-glandular; ovary half inferior, ovoid; style slender; stigma small, erect. Fruit a berry, 10-12 mm long, ovoid, greenish-white, seated on a thickened perianth tube. Flowering and fruiting: December-January
Semi-evergreen forests and sacred groves
Peninsular India (Endemic)
(From India Biodiversity Portal
Attributions- Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi) .          Tree Identification: Attachments (9). 9 posts by 5 authors.
Please help me identify this tree. They are found in our house premises not planted ones. See the pics. Location : North Paravur , Ernakulam , Kerala. The tree is 10m tall. My wildest guess is for Hydnocarpus pentandra (male buds?)! Not sure at all. please check species of Listea as well. I agree with … looks a lot like Litsea coriacea
ANDEC36 Please identify this tree : 5 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (6)
Nelliyampathy, Kerala Litsea sp.? The images attached with your mail are of Litsea coriacea (Lauraceae).
ANJAN36/36 Litsea coriacea : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (9)
Family: Lauraceae Beautiful pictures of a plant from Lauraceae (Already mentioned by you)        Litsea josephii FOR VALIDATION :: Charmadi Ghat :: 12 NOV 2016 :: DVDEC21 : 9 posts by 4 authors. 7 images. Charmadi Ghat Karnataka
Date: 12 NOV 2016 … Altitude: explored between: 873 – 976 m (2863 – 3201 ft) asl
Litsea ¿ josephii ? … (family: Lauraceae)
Dear friends, Please validate whether Litsea josephii. I think this is Litsea coriacea. efi page on Litsea coriacea with images The images in the link is of Litsea coriacea (B. Heyne ex Nees) Hook. f.
One more thing I want to tell you that Litsea josephii S. M. Almeida is illegimate and superflous name, the valid name for Litsea josephii is Litsea stocksii (Meisn.) Hook. f.
Please refer this article for nomenclature – TYPIFICATION OF TEN SPECIES OF LITSEA LAM. (LAURACEAE)
ENDEMIC TO INDIA. Bangladesh J. Plant Taxon. 22(2): 77-81. 2015. It should be Litsea coriacea.
Names of Plants in India :: Litsea coriacea (B. Heyne ex Nees) Hook. f. : 3 posts by 2 authors.
    LIT-see-a — Chinese litse or Ii, meaning small, little … Dave’s Botanary kor-ee-uh-KEE-uh — leathery … Dave’s Botanary commonly known as: leathery-leaved laurel • Kannada: ಎರ್ಚಿಕೂಟಿ erchikooti, ಮುಜ muja • Malayalam: മരവെട്ടിത്താളി maravettithali, പന്നിത്താളി pannithali, വെട്ടിത്താളി vettithali • Tulu: ಎರ್ಚಿಕೂಟಿ erchikooti botanical names: Litsea coriacea (Heyne ex Meisner) Hook. f. … synonym: Tetranthera coriacea Heyne ex Meisner … Kerala Plants November 12, 2016 … along Charmadi Ghat, Karnataka Dear friends, please read author citation in subject line and body text as (Heyne ex Meisner) Hook. f. Wonderful efforts, … LIT-see-a — Chinese litse or Ii, meaning small, little … Dave’s Botanary
kor-ee-uh-KEE-uh — leathery … Dave’s Botanary commonly known as: leather-leaf litsea • Kannada: ಎರ್ಚಿಕೂಟಿ erchikooti, ಮುಜ muja • Malayalam: മരവെട്ടിത്താളി maravettithaali, പന്നിത്താളി pannithaali, വെട്ടിത്താളി vettithaali • Tamil: பன்னித்தழை pannittalai • Tulu: ಎರ್ಚಿಕೂಟಿ erchikooti
botanical names: Litsea coriacea (B.Heyne ex Nees) Hook.f. … homotypic synonyms: Tetranthera coriacea B.Heyne ex Nees … heterotypic synonyms: Malapoenna coriacea Kuntze • Tetranthera micrantha Meisn. … POWO Bibliography / etymology
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~~~~~ ENGLISH ~~~~~
leather-leaf litsea
~~~~~ KANNADA ~~~~~
ಎರ್ಚಿಕೂಟಿ erchikooti, ಮುಜ muja
~~~~~ MALAYALAM ~~~~~
മരവെട്ടിത്താളി maravettithaali, പന്നിത്താളി pannithaali, വെട്ടിത്താളി vettithaali
~~~~~ TAMIL ~~~~~
பன்னித்தழை pannittalai
~~~~~ TULU ~~~~~
ಎರ್ಚಿಕೂಟಿ erchikooti
~~~~~ DISTRIBUTION in INDIA ~~~~~
*Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, *Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu; endemic
* no given name / no name found, in the regional language(s) of the state ~~~~~ x ~~~~~
Names compiled / updated at
https://dineshvalke.blogspot.com/2023/08/litsea-coriacea-bheyne-ex-nees-hookf.html Both Malayalam and English spellings are correct . Names of Plants in India :: Kannada names of Litsea coriacea : 3 posts by 2 authors.
Kannada names for Litsea coriacea are: erchikooti and muja
Etymology of erchikooti (muscle binder) as the leaves are much used to heal muscle torsion.
Reference: Shodhganga Medicinal plants of Tulunadu
Would it be written in Kannada script thus: ಎರ್ಚಿಕೂಟ್ಟಿ and ಮುಜ … I could not see any satisfactory results in search for ಎರ್ಚಿ / ಕೂಟ್ಟಿ / ಮುಜ
Please validate ಎರ್ಚಿಕೂಟ್ಟಿ and ಮುಜ For me the the word should be written as ಎರ್ಚಿ ಕೂಟಿ. Thank you very very much for validating the names, and rendering them in native script. |
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