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Hopea ponga (Dennst.) Mabb.

Synonym: Artocarpus ponga Dennst., Hopea wightiana Wall.ex Wight & Arn.

DIPTEROCARPACEAE

Local Names : കമ്പകം, Thingam.

Flowering Period : March to June.

Distribution : Southern Western Ghats

Uses:   Timber yielding, Sacred Indian Tree.

Exotic : No.

Evergreen trees, bark dark grey, smooth, exfoliations large. Leaves simple, alternate, ovate-lanceolate or ovate-oblong or ovate, base rounded, or obtuse, apex acute. Flowers bisexual, yellowish-pink, in axillary unilateral drooping racemose panicles. Sepals 5, two outer sepals obtuse, larger than the 3 acute inner ones. Petals 5, ovate-lanceolate, pubescent. Stamens 10 or 15. Ovary superior, 3-celled, ovules 2 in each cell; stylopodium glabrous. Fruit a nut, ovoid; calyx lobes expanded to forms wings.

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