Category: C

Carissa congesta Wight (APOCYNACEAE) Common namesKannada: Karande, Karekai.Malayalam: Kala, Karimullio.Sanskrit: Karamarda.Tamil: Kalaa, Kilaa.Telugu: Kalivi, Waaka.English: Bengal currant. Description: Spreading shrubs with significant thorns and light grey bark; the branches typically alternate, bearing pairs of sturdy, sharp, horizontal, and smooth spines measuring 2.5-4 cm in length. Leaves elliptic-oblong or broadly ovate, 4-7.5 x 2.5 – 5…

Callicarpa tomentosa (L.) Murray (VERBENACEAE) Common namesKannada: Doddanathada gida, Pandavara bathi.Malayalam: Nallapompil.Tamil: Verrilaippattai, Vettilaipattai. Description: Compact trees reaching heights of 8-10 meters with rough, brownish bark; their young branches are covered in star-shaped hairs. Leaves opposite, ovate, elliptic-lanceolate or elliptic-oblong, 10-25 x 7-15 cm, acute or rounded at base, acuminate at apex, entire or toothed,…

Calycopteris floribunda Lam. (COMBRETACEAE) Common namesSankrit: Shwetadataki.Kannada: Anjeeru, Marasuthu balli.Tamil: Minnargodi.Telugu: Advijama. Description: Straggling shrubs; young parts pubescent. Leaves opposite, elliptic- oblong or ovate-elliptic, 4.5 – 10 x 2.5 cm, rounded at base, acute to acuminate at apex, , silky pubescent above when young, fulvous tomentose beneath with numerous pellucid glands. Flowers in dense panicles…

Cassia fistula L. (CAESALPINIACEAE) Common namesKannada: Kakke gida.Tulu: Konde mara.Malayalam: Konna.Tamil: Konnei.Telugu: Rola.English: Indian Laburnum. Description: Compact deciduous trees reaching heights of up to 8 meters; the bark is initially smooth and pale grey, later becoming rough and dark brown as they mature. Leaves paripinnately compound, 30-40 cm long; leaflets 4-8 pairs, ovate, 8-14 x…

Casearia championii Thwaites (FLACOURTIACEAE)  Common namesMalayalam: Vella-kunnan Description: Shrubs or small trees, up to 4 m tall; bark greyish, smooth. Leaves elliptic – oblong or lanceolate, 5-16 x 3-8 cm, attenuate at base, acute or acuminate at apex, the acumen often twisted crenato-repand to subentire, glabrous, green and glossy when mature; secondary veins 6-8 pairs; petioles 4-7…

Carallia brachiata (Lour.) Merr. (RHIZOPHORACEAE) Common namesKannada: Andipunaru.Tulu: Andipunaru. Description: Trees, up to 20 m tall with creamy rough bark. Leaves opposite, elliptic-obovate, up to 12 x 8 cm, acute at base, obtuse or shortly acuminate at apex; stipules large, caducous. Flowers small, sessile, in small heads on axillary trichotomous cymes, up to 0.35 mm…