Chandigarh Forests
Department of Forest & Wildlife
UT Administration
Chandigarh
Department of Forest & Wildlife
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Division
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Angiosperms |
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Class
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Dicotledons |
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Subclass |
Polypetalae |
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Series |
Calyciflorae |
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Order |
Myrtales |
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Family
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Combretaceae |
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Genus
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Terminalia |
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Species
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myriocarpa |
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Botanical name:
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Terminalia myriocarpa van Heurck & Muell.-Arg. |
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Local/Trade Names: |
Hollock |
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Conservation status: |
Cultivated at Forest Research Institute Dehra Dun. |
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Digonestic features: |
Fruit pink-coppery when mature. |
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Description: |
A large, evergreen tree, shoots rusty-pubescent. Leaves 10-30 cm long, elliptic-oblong, with one or two prominent cylindric glands at the top. Flowers white, minute, in long drooping spikes arranged in terminal panicles; bracts very short. Fruit small, pink-coppery when mature, 3-cornered, the two lateral angles expanded into small wings. |
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Phenology: |
Fls.: Oct.-Nov. Frts.: Dec.-Jan. Leaves are shed during Feb.-Mar. |
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Distribution: |
Eastern Himalaya and Western Ghats upto 1500 m. |
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Where to see it: |
Medicinal Plant Garden. |
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Uses: |
Wood used for house-building, transmission poles, heavy packing-cases, furniture, and general purposes; also suitable for plywood manufacture, match-boxes, jute mill rollers and lorry bodies. Wood may be used for dugouts, oars, wells, and cartshafts; yields pulp for paper manufacture. Bark diuretic and cardiac stimulant. Used also for tanning. |
