Flowering : April - May. Fruit ripen :May - July
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Baccaurea cauliflora Lour. |
| synonym | Baccaurea flaccida Müll.Arg. |
| synonym | Baccaurea oxycarpa Gagnep. |
| synonym | Baccaurea pierardi Wall. |
| synonym | Baccaurea propinqua Müll.Arg. |
| synonym | Baccaurea sapida (Roxb.) Müll.Arg. |
| synonym | Baccaurea wrayi King ex Hook.f. |
| synonym | Gatnaia annamica Gagnep. |
| synonym | Pierardia flaccida Wall., nom. nud. |
| synonym | Pierardia sapida Roxb. |
🗒 Common Names
| Aboriginal |
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| Assamese |
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| Bengali |
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| Cachar |
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| Dimasa |
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| Garo |
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| Hindi |
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| Karbi |
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| Khasi |
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| Kuki |
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| Lepcha |
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| Lush. |
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| Manipuri |
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| Mech. |
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| Mikir |
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| Miri |
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| Mishing |
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| Nepali |
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| Other |
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| Rajbanshi |
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| Rajbungshi |
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| Sylhet |
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| Tripura |
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| bodo |
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📚 Overview
📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Cyclicity
Wild edible plants of Assam. by Sri Brahmananda Patiri and Sri Ananta Borah, published by the Director Forest Communication, Forest Department, Assam. Curated for upload by Pranjal Mahananda.
Flowering: December - May
Fruiting: March - August
Compiled from secondary sources listed in references by Poornima Viswanathan for the Assam Biodiversity Portal project.
Morphology
Growth Form
Tree
A common species in the state, middle sized tree, young parts hairy, bark dark grey with vertical lenticels. Leaves moderate sized, elliptic-oblong, or obovate or elliptic lanceolate, glabrous, membranous. Flowers dioecious comeout from old trunk as receme inflorescens. Fruit is globose, capsular, yellowish brown, seeds orbicular, embedded in rose coloured pulp (arillus).
Wild edible plants of Assam. by Sri Brahmananda Patiri and Sri Ananta Borah, published by the Director Forest Communication, Forest Department, Assam. Curated for upload by Pranjal Mahananda.
A middle-sized tree (35'/48") ; young parts hairy. Bark darkish grey, with vertical lenticels, exfoliating in pieces, 0.3 in. thick; blaze brownish; wood cream coloured. Leaves 4-9 by 1.3-3.5 in., elliptic-oblong or obovate or elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, membranous, glabrous; lateral nerves 5-10 on either half; base narrowed; petiole 0.5-1.75 in., thick, geniculate. Flowers dioecious, apetalous, shortly pedicellate, in densely fascicled racemes from old wood or below the leaves. Male bracts longer than the clusters. Female bracts very small. Calyx-segments 4-5, unequal. Stamens 4-8; filaments short, free; anthers small; pistillode pubescent; disc 0. Ovary 2-5-celled, tomentose; stigma small, 2-5; ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit globose, capsular, yellowish-brown, about 1 in. across; endocarp not separable. Seeds orbicular, embeded in rose-coloured pulp (arillus).
Compiled from secondary sources listed in references by Poornima Viswanathan for the Assam Biodiversity Portal project.
Genetics
n=13
Compiled from secondary sources listed in references by Poornima Viswanathan for the Assam Biodiversity Portal project.
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Wet evergreen forest
Terrestrial: Subtropical forests, wet evergreen forests, inland forests, from sea level up to 1200 m altitude
Compiled from secondary sources listed in references by Poornima Viswanathan for the Assam Biodiversity Portal project.
Description
Global Distribution
India: Andaman And Nicobar Island, North East India, Eastern Himalaya, Kerala, Odisha, Tamil Nadu; Bangladesh, Indo-china, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand
Local Distribution
Bongaigaon, Barak Valley, Lakhimpur, Sivasagar
Global Distribution
India, Bhutan, Bangladesh; Cambodia; China South-Central; East Himalaya; Hainan; Laos; Malaya; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam
Indian Distribution
Andaman and Nicobar Is., Assam, West Bengal, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Tripura, Orissa
Compiled from secondary sources listed in references by Poornima Viswanathan for the Assam Biodiversity Portal project.
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📚 Occurrence
No Data
📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
Uses
System of Medicines Used In
Folk medicine
The pulp of the fruit eaten and delicious often sold in the market
Wild edible plants of Assam. by Sri Brahmananda Patiri and Sri Ananta Borah, published by the Director Forest Communication, Forest Department, Assam. Curated for upload by Pranjal Mahananda.
Pulp edible and delicious. Bark is used as medicine for constipation by mikirs in NE India. IN Bhutan, bark is used as mordant in the dyeing process.
Compiled from secondary sources listed in references by Poornima Viswanathan for the Assam Biodiversity Portal project.
System Of Medicines Used In
Folk medicine
FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=3366
| Attributions | FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=3366 |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
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📚 Information Listing
References
- Hooker, J. D. 1887. Flora of British India. Vol. 5. Part XIV. p241-462. L. Reeve and Co., London. https://archive.org/details/floraofbritishin05hookrich
- Kanjilal, U.N.; Kanjilal, P.C.; De, R.N. and Das, A. 1940. Flora of Assam.Vol. 4. Nyctaginaceae to Cycadaceae. Government of Assam, Assam Govt. Press, Shillong. https://archive.org/details/FloraOfAssam4
- Botanical Survey of India. http://efloraindia.nic.in/efloraindia/taxonList.action?id=608&type=4 (Accessed on 15 May 2018)
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=3366
Information Listing > References
- Hooker, J. D. 1887. Flora of British India. Vol. 5. Part XIV. p241-462. L. Reeve and Co., London. https://archive.org/details/floraofbritishin05hookrich
- Kanjilal, U.N.; Kanjilal, P.C.; De, R.N. and Das, A. 1940. Flora of Assam.Vol. 4. Nyctaginaceae to Cycadaceae. Government of Assam, Assam Govt. Press, Shillong. https://archive.org/details/FloraOfAssam4
- Botanical Survey of India. http://efloraindia.nic.in/efloraindia/taxonList.action?id=608&type=4 (Accessed on 15 May 2018)
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=3366
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Equisetopsida C. Agardh |
| Order | Malpighiales Juss. ex Bercht. & J. Presl |
| Family | Phyllanthaceae |
| Genus | Baccaurea |
| Species | Baccaurea ramiflora Lour. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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