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Hopea glabra Wight & Arn.

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Family : DIPTEROCARPACEAE

Synonym : Hopea wightiana var. glabra (Wight & Arn.) Bedd.

Common Names : Irumbakam, Karimpongu, Ilapongu, Naithambagam, Puzhupongu, Hopea

Flowering Period : January-July

Distribution : Western Ghats

Habitat : Evergreen forests

Uses : Timber yielding.

Key Characters :

Trees, to 20 m high, bole buttressed; bark 5-6 mm, dark brown; petiole 8-20 mm, slender, glabrous; lamina 6-10 x 2.5-4 cm, elliptic, oblong-lanceolate, base acute, obtuse or round, apex acute or acuminate, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous, lateral nerves 4-8 pairs, parallel, prominent, intercostae scalariform, prominent. Flowers bisexual, creamy yellow, 1-3 together in axillary racemose panicles; calyx glabrous, sepals 5; petals 5, puberulous outside, margin ciliate; stamens 15, slightly connate; anther orbicular, connective forms a subulate point; ovary superior, pubescent, 3-celled, ovules 2 in each cell; stylopodium puberulous; style glabrous, short, subulate. Fruit a nut, ovoid; wings 2, reddish, 7.6 x 1.9.