Category: H

Hydnocarpus pentandra (Buch. – Ham.) Oken (FLACOURTIACEAE) Common namesKannada: Chaulmoogra yenne mara, Suranti.Sanskrit: Garudaphala, Tuvrak.Tamil: Maravattai, Niradimattu.Telugu: Adi-badam, Niradi. Description: Dioecious trees reaching heights of up to 25 meters; their young parts are covered in brown pubescence. The leaves are ovate-elliptic, elliptic-oblong, oblong, or lanceolate, measuring up to 25 x 10 cm. They have a…

Hymenodictyon obovatum Wallich (RUBIACEAE) Common namesKannada: Gandele, Hiremara. Description: Small or medium-sized deciduous trees, up to 8 m tall with grey bark. Leaves obovate or elliptic, 10-15 x 4-8 cm, cuneate at base, acuminate at apex, glabrescent; main nerves 6-8 pairs; petioles 2.5-5 cm long; stipules obovate-oblong with glandular margins. Flowers small in sessile clusters…

Humboldtia brunonis Wallich (CAESALPINIACEAE) Common name:Kannada: Hasige mara. Description: Shrubs or small trees. Leaves subsessile; rachis ca 5 cm long; leaflets 2 pairs, obovate – oblong, up to 22 x 8.5 cm, obliquely acute at base, abruptly acuminate at apex. Stipules ca 3 cm long with reniform, leafy basal appendages. Flowers in 8-15 cm long…

Homalium ceylanicum (Gardner) Bentham (ROSACEAE) Common nameKannada: Kala. Description: The trees reach heights of up to 5 meters. The leaves are elliptic, acuminate, narrowed at the base, and crenate, measuring up to 9.5 x 4.5 cm. The flowers are white but emit an unpleasant odor. Sepals 4, ciliate along margin; Petals glabrous. Stamens 4, alternating…

Holarrhena pubescens (Buch – Ham) Wallich ex G. Don.(APOCYNACEAE) Common namesKannada: Kodasalu, Kutaja.Tulu: Kutaja.Malayalam: Kodaga pala.Sanskrit: Kalinga, Pandura.Tamil: Ve palei, Kodaga palei.Telugu: Pala kodaga, Pala kodsa. Description: Small trees, up to 10 m tall with brown, rough bark; white milky latex. Leaves opposite, broadly ovate or elliptic, 10-20 x 5-12 cm, rounded to obtuse at…

Holigarna nigra Bourd. (ANACARDIACEAE) Common namesKannada: Chere.Tamil: Cherei. Description: Trees, 10-15 m tall with black juice; branches glabrous. Leaves alternate, spathulate, up to 12x 6cm, base narrowed into 1-2 cm long petiole, obtuse or retuse at apex, glabrous, spars early deciduous. Flowers in up to 8 cm long, dark purple pubescencent panicles, white. Bisexual flowers…

Holigarna grahamii (Wight) Kurz (ANACARDIACEAE) Common namesKannada: Malechere.Malayalam: Bipti, Balwali. Description: Trees, up to 30 m tall; young branches tomentose. Leaves alternate, crowded at the ends of branchlets, oblanceolate, 23-35×8-23 cm, narrowed below the middle, cuneate at base, shortly acuminate at apex, rusty – pubescent beneath; petiole up to 4 cm long, with 1-2 pairs…

Holigarna ferruginea Marchand (ANACARDIACEAE) Common namesKannada: Chere.Tulu: Chere.Tamil: Chaeri.Malayalam: Haisikutti Cherai. Description: Large trees, 30-33 m tall; branches glabrous. Leaves alternate, clustured at the ends of branchlets, obovate or oblaceolate, up to 22x 9 cm, cuneate at base, obtuse or acute at apex, glabrous, glaucous beneath; nerves 12-16 pairs; petiole up to 1.5 cm long…

Holigarna beddomei Hook. f. (ANACARDIACEAE) Common nameTamil: Palvidinyan. Description: Trees up to 25 m tall with black juice. Leaves alternate, ovate or oblanceolate, up to 35 x 12 cm, abruptly broad above the middle, cuneate at base, acuminate at apex, rusty tomentose beneath; petioles up to 4 cm long, tomentose, with slender spurs, caducous. Flowers…

Holigarna arnottiana Hook. f. (ANACARDACEAE) Common namesKannada: Holegara, Hulgeri, Kadugeru.Tulu: Chere.Malayalam: Cheru.Tamil: Charei, Karun. Description: Trees, 10-15 m tall with black caustic juice. Leaves alternate, obovate-oblanceolate, 10-23 x 3.5-8 cm, acute or rounded at apex, glabrous on both surfaces; amin nerves 16-20 pairs; petioles 1.5 – 2.5 cm long, spurs early caducous. Flowers in up…