Category: D

Diospyros buxifolia (Blume) Hiern. (EBENACEAE) Description: The trees can reach heights of up to 20 meters. When young, the twigs are covered in fine hair (hirsute), while the bark is smooth, ranging in color from dark brown to black. Leaves alternate subsessile, elliptic, up to 5.5 x 2.4 cm, acute. Flowers unisexual, 4-merous. Male flowers…

Diospyros bourdilloni Brandis (EBENACEAE) Common namesMalayalam: Kari, Kodal, Therikka.Tamil: Karun chathi. Distribution: Large tree, 25-30 m tall with black bark. Leaves alternate, drooping, oblong-lanceolate, up to 15 x 5 cm, cuneate at base, long acuminate at apex, glabrous, coriaceous; main nerves 6-8 pairs. Flowers unisexual; male flowers in short axillary cymes; female in short thick-peduncled…

Dillenia pentagyna Roxb. (DILLENIACEAE) Common namesKannada: Kadukanigala, Muchiru.Malayalam: Kodapunna, Naithekku. Description: Deciduous trees, up to 15 m tall. Leaves crowded at the ends of branchlets, alternate, oblong-lanceolate or oblong-obovate, 15-50 x 7-21 cm, obtuse or cuneate at base, obtuse at apex, nearly entire to dentate along margins; lateral nerves 25-50 pairs, parallel, pubescent; petioles 1.5…

Dillenia india L. (DILLENIACEAE) Common namesKannada: Betta-kanagala.Malayalam: Chalita, Syalita.Tamil: Uva.Telugu: Pedda kalinga.English: Elephant apple. Description: Evergreen trees, up to 25 m tall; bark smooth, peeling off in a small thin hard scales; branchlets tomentose. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, 15-40 x 5-12 cm, attenuate at base, acute to acuminate at apex, more or less serrate-dentate along margins, glabrous…

Diploclisia glaucescens (Blume) Diels (MENISPERMACEAE) Common namesKannada: Bootha Kannu.Tulu: Bootha Kannu.Tamil: Kottaiyachachi, Morasankodi. Description: Woody climbers. Leaves alternate, paltate or not, broadly ovate to suborbicular, up to 11 x 9 cm, sub cordate to truncate at base, obtuse at apex, slightly crenate along margins, glaucous beneath; petioles up to 12 cm long. Flowers in large,…

Dalbergia latifolia Roxb. (PAPILIONACEAE) Common namesKannada: Beete mara.Malayalam: Cholavitti.Tamil: Eravadi.English: Indian rose wood. Description: Deciduous trees,10-20 m tall with grey bark. Leaves imparipinnate, 20-25 cm; rachis glabrous; leaflets 5-7, elliptic-orbicular curved to the petiole at base, obtuse or emarginated at apex, glabrous on both sides; petiolules 0.5 – 0.8 cm long. Flowers in axillary or…