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Atalantia recemosa Wight (RUTACEAE) Common namesKannada: Huchu nimbe. Description: Bushes or moderate-sized trees, reaching heights of up to 15 meters, frequently adorned with robust axillary spines, seldom without any spines. Leaves alternate, 1-foliolate; petiole 5-10 mm long, jointed at apex; leaflet elliptic-oblong or ovate-oblong, up to 10 x 4 cm, cuneate at base, emarginate at…

Artocarpus hirsutus Lam. (MORACEAE) Common namesKannada: Hebbalasu.Tulu: Peja.Tamil: Kattuppala, Aiyinipala.Malayalam: Ayani, Anjili, Ayini plavu.Telugu: Adavi pana.Sanskrit: Lakucah Description: Evergreen trees, up to 40 m tall. Leaves alternate, broadly elliptic-ovate, up to 18 x 12 cm, rounded at base, acuminate at apex. Flowers monoecious, on axillary pedunculate receptacles; the male receptacles narrowly cylindric, up to 15…

Artocarpus heterophyllus Lam. (MORACEAE) Common namesKannada: Halasu.Tulu: Pelakkai.Malayalam: Pila, Pilavu.Tamil: Palamaram.English: Jack. Description: Towering evergreen trees reaching heights of up to 25 meters. Leaves alternate, elliptic, oblong, or obovate-oblong, up to 12 x 7 cm, cuneate at base, obtuse to subacuminate at apex; stipules large, spathaceous, up to 8 x 4 cm. Flowers monoecious, on…

Artocarpus gomezianus Wallich ex Trecul subsp Common namesKannada: Vate huli.Malayalam: Chima, Thittipilavu.Telugu: Nakkarenu.English: Monkey jack. Description: Large deciduous trees, up to 25 m tall; young shoots densely tomentose. Leaves alternate, ovate, ovate-lanceolate or oblong, up to 25 x 12 cm, truncate or subcordate at base, acuminate at apex; grey-pubescent beneath; stipules small, grey-pubescent. Flowers monoecious,…

Archidendron monadelphum (Roxb.) Nielsen (MIMOSACEAE) Common namesKannada: Kadu kondemara.Malayalam: Mutha kolappan.Tamil: Kal pakku. Description: Small trees, 10-15 m tall with thin, smooth bark. Leaves bipinnate with a gland on the petiole and one each at base of pinnae and leaflets; rachis 10-15 cm long; petiole 3-4 cm long; pinnae 1-2 pairs; leaflets up to 4…

Ardisia solanacea Roxb. (MYRSINACEAE) Common namesKannada: Bodina gida.Malayalam: Mollakka.Tamil: Manipudban, Koshikkottai.Telugu: Kondamayuri. Description: Shrubs or small trees up to 10 m tall; branchlets stout, marked with the scars of fallen leaves. Leaves alternate, elliptic or oblanceolate, up to 22 x 7.5 cm, attenuate at base, acute or acuminate at apex, minutely dotted; petioles ca 1.5…

Arenga wightii Griffith (PALMAE) Common namesKannada: Dhudsal, Kaadu eechalu.Malayalam: Alathil tenga, Malam tengu.Tamil: Alam panei. Description: Slender palms, forming dense clumps by suckers, ca 10 m tall and ca 30 cm diam., smooth, grey; densely clothed with black fibrous remains of the leaf sheaths. Leaves 30-70 cm long; leaflets alternate, crowded, linear-ensiform, 30-115 x 4-10…

Aporusa lindleyana (Wight) Baillon (EUPHORBIACEAE) Common namesSanskrit: Valaka.Kannada: Sellegida, Saroli.Tamil: Vittil.Malayalam: Vittil. Description: Small, dioecious trees up to 15 m tall; branchlets angular. Leaves alternate, elliptic-oblong, 6-15.5 x 2.8-7.2, acute or rounded at base, rounded or shortly acuminate at apex; midrib impressed and channeled above. Male flowers in axillary catkin like spikes, up to 8 cm, yellowish…

Aphanamixis polystachya (Wallich) R. Parker (MELIACEAE) Common namesKannada: Rohithaca Description: Towering evergreen trees, reaching heights of up to 20 meters, exhibiting a dense, expansive, umbrella-shaped crown. Leaves alternate, crowded at ends of branchlets, imparipinnate, 20-70 cm long; rachis up to 12 cm long, channeled above; leaflets 9 – 19, opposite or subalternate, oblong-lanceolate or ovate,…

Apodytes dimidiata E. meyer ex Arn. (ICACINACEAE) Description: Trees up to 12 m tall. Young branches tomentose. Leaves typically measure 4.5 to 11 centimeters in length and 2.5 to 4.5 centimeters in width, displaying an ovate shape with an acuminate apex, usually subacute, and occasionally showing unequal bases.Flowers white, bisexual, in terminal, panicles, corymbose cymes;…