{"id":1318866,"date":"2012-08-02T05:33:59","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T05:33:59","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-24T18:43:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T13:13:25","slug":"actinodaphne-wightiana","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/efi\/actinodaphne-wightiana\/","title":{"rendered":"Actinodaphne malabarica"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Actinodaphne malabarica<\/i> Balkr.<\/font><\/a>,<\/font> Regnum Veg. 145: 495 2005<\/i>. (Syn: Actinodaphne hirsuta<\/i> Hk. f.);<\/div>\n
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Malayalam<\/b> <\/span><\/td>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t Kambiliviriji,\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t Neyaram,\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t Kambilivirinji,\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t Pattutthalli,\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t Malavirinji,\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t Pukachan\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Others <\/span><\/td>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t Kambilivirinji,\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t Malavirinji<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Trees, to 18 m high, bark dark grey, smooth, lenticellate; blaze dull yellow with brownish streaks; young shoots densely fulvous tomentose. Leaves simple, subverticillate, opposite or subopposite, estipulate; petiole 7-20 mm long, stout, tomentose; lamina 7-25 x 2.5-6 cm, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, base acute or attenuate, apex acuminate, margin entire, glabrous above, villous beneath, chartaceous; lateral nerves 8-12 pairs, pinnate, slender, prominent, ascending about 400-500 from midrib, indistinct towards the margin; intercostae scalariform, obscure. Flowers unisexual, yellowish; male flowers: in densely tomentose racemes of 2.5 cm long; bracts 10 x 7 mm, orbicular, densely silky brown tomentose; tepals 6, subequal, oblong, obtuse, silky brown tomentose; stamens 9, in 3 rows; filaments 2-galndular, densely hispid; anthers 4-celled, oblong, introrse; female flowers: staminodes 9, in 3 rows, those of row 3 with 2-glands; ovary half inferior, ovoid, attenuate into the style; stigma dilated. Fruit a berry 7-10 mm across, globose, seated in a perianth cup, red.
Flowering and fruiting: August-January<\/font>\u00a0<\/div>\n

Evergreen and semi-evergreen forests<\/font><\/div>\n
Southern Western Ghats<\/font><\/div>\n
(From India Biodiversity Portal<\/font><\/a>\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Attributions- Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi<\/font><\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Lauraceae tree for identification 240712MK03:<\/a> <\/p>\n
Please help me to identify this Lauraceae<\/i> tree. <\/div>\n
I could not find any flowers in here. The leaves are upto 20cm longer. <\/font><\/div>\n
The tree was located near a Tea estate in an open grassland.<\/font><\/div>\n
Place: near sholayar dam (vaalparai), TN<\/font><\/div>\n
Alt: 1000 m asl<\/font><\/div>\n
Date: 13 July 2012<\/p>\n
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It may be Actinodaphne<\/i>.<\/p>\n
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There are options to identify your species particularly woody- trees and lianas of Western Ghats by using Vegetative key of Pascal and Ramesh (Published by French Institute of Pondicherry);
the other one is:
Biotik.org- online (as well desktop based DVD) system is available for identification of the tree species of evergreen forest (only for the Western Ghats)- also published from French Institute.
For me based on the images you have uploaded it could be Actinodaphne bourdillonii<\/i> Gamble – LAURACEAE<\/i>
<\/font>further confirmation u can do it with the online version, check with floras and herbarium if possible.<\/p>\n
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The description as in BIOTIK website: http:\/\/www.biotik.org\/india\/species\/a\/actibour\/actibour_en.html<\/font><\/a> <\/div>\n
Many thanks …, actually I am using the biotik software for identifying many westernghats trees; and I got many good results. I am very poor in identifying the Lauraceae members; and have no familiarity in it. <\/p>\n
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It is Actinodaphne malabarica<\/b><\/i> Balakr. confirm<\/font><\/span><\/div>\n
Syn: Actinodaphne hirsuta<\/i> Hook. f.<\/p>\n
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More views on Actinodaphne malabarica<\/b><\/i> <\/font>http:\/\/www.biotik.org\/india\/species\/a\/actimala\/actimala_en.html<\/font><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I am attaching the flowers of the same species. This tree is common in tea estates of Western Ghats.<\/font>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Biotik<\/a>\u00a0(Actinodaphne malabarica<\/b><\/i> Balakr. syn. Actinodaphne<\/i> hirsuta<\/i> Hook.f.<\/span><\/span><\/span>)\u00a0\u00a0<\/font><\/span> <\/font><\/span><\/div>\n
Tropicos<\/a>\u00a0(Actinodaphne malabarica<\/b><\/i> Balakr. syn. Actinodaphne<\/i> hirsuta<\/i> Hook.f.<\/span><\/span><\/span>)\u00a0<\/font><\/span><\/span> <\/font><\/span><\/div>\n
India Biodiversity Portal<\/a>\u00a0 (Actinodaphne malabarica<\/b><\/i> Balakr. syn. Actinodaphne<\/i> hirsuta<\/i> Hook.f.<\/span><\/span><\/span>)\u00a0\u00a0<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/font><\/span><\/div>\n
Encyclopaedia of World Medicinal Plants, Volume 1<\/a> By T. Pullaiah (2006- Actinodaphne malabarica<\/b><\/i> Balakr.)\u00a0\u00a0<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
The Plant List Ver. 1.1<\/a>\u00a0(Actinodaphne<\/i> malabarica<\/i> N.P.Balakr.<\/span>is a syn.<\/font><\/a> of Actinodaphne<\/i> wightiana<\/i><\/b> (Kuntze) Noltie<\/span><\/font><\/a>) <\/font><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Actinodaphne malabarica Balkr., Regnum Veg. 145: 495 2005. (Syn: Actinodaphne hirsuta Hk. f.); \u00a0 Malayalam Kambiliviriji, Neyaram, Kambilivirinji, Pattutthalli, Malavirinji, Pukachan Others Kambilivirinji, Malavirinji Trees, to 18 m high, bark dark grey, smooth, lenticellate; blaze dull yellow with brownish streaks; young shoots densely fulvous tomentose. Leaves simple, subverticillate, opposite or…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[7115],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1318866","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-actinodaphne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1318866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1318866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1318866"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1318866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}