Category: S

Sterculia guttata Roxb. ex DC. (STERCULIACEAE) Common namesKannada: Jenu kathala, Hulitaradu mara.Malayalam: Kithondi, Kavalam.Tamil: Kavali, Thondi. Description: Trees, up to 20 m tall; bark much cracked, ash coloured, inner fibrous, rough with warts outside; young shoots clothed with stellate-tomentum. Leaves alternate, ovate-oblong, ovate-elliptic or obovate, up to 25 x 15 cm, subcordate, rounded or subtruncate…

Spatholobus purpureus Benth. ex Baker (PAPILIONACEAE) Description: A large climbing shrub. Leaves 3-foliolate, rachis ca 14 cm long; petioles 3-7 cm long; leaflets oblong-elliptic or ovate-oblong, ca 16 x 9 cm, rounded at base, shortly acuminate at apex, glabrous on both the surfaces; main nerves 6-8 pairs. Flowers numerous in terminal and axillary leafy panicles.…

Spondias pinnata (L. f.) Kurz (ANACARDIACEAE) Common namesKannada: Amate mara, Ambate mara, Kaadu amate.Tulu: Ambatte mara.Malayalam: Manpuli.Tamil: Pullipulanh.Telugu: Kondamanidi.English: Hog-plum. Description: Deciduous trees, 20-25 m tall with smooth, grey bark. Leaves usually crowded at the ends of the branches, alternate, imparipinaate, 18-50 cm long; petioles 5-15 cm long; leaflets 4-5 pairs, subopposite, elliptic-oblong, 6-18×5-8.5 cm,…

Securinega leucopyrus (Willd.) Muell. – Arg. (EUPHORBIACEAE) Common namesKannada: Bili sooli gida, Sooli.Malayalam: PerinklavuSanskrit: Nilishila.Tamil: Pulanji.Telugu: Tella purugudu. Description: Erect, rigid, much branched shrubs up to 5 m tall; branchlets angular, slender, usually ending in sharp spines. Leaves alternate, obovate to elliptic, up to 2.5 x 1.5 cm, acute or cuneate at base, emarginated at…

Schefflera venulosa (Wight & Arn.) Harms (ARALIACEAE) Description: Large stragglers/climbing glabrous shrubs with grey shining bark. Leaves digitate or palmately compound, crowded at the ends of branchlets; leaflets 3-7 (commonly 5) elliptic-oblong or elliptic-ovate, 7-19 x 5-9 cm rounded at base, acuminate at apex, coriaceous, glabrous; petioles 7-20 cm long, stout; petiolules 2.5-5 cm long;…

Schleichera oleosa (Lour.) Oken (SAPINDACEAE) Common namesKannada: Jendala chakota, Sagade kendala.Malayalam: Puvam.Tamil: Kolama, Puvam, Puvatti.English: Ceylon Oak tree, Lac tree. Description: Deciduous trees up to 25 m tall. Leaves alternate, paripinnate, up to 40 cm long; leaflets opposite, 2-4 pairs, elliptic, elliptic-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, up to 18 x 7.5 cm. rounded at base, obtuse to…

Sapindus trifolius L. (SAPINDACEAE) Common namesKannada: Antavaala, Nore kaayi.Malayalam: Pasakotta.Tamil: Manippungu, Puchikottai Description: Trees, up to 10 m tall. Leaves alternate, paripinnate; leaflets subopposite, 2-4 pairs, lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, up to 17.5 x 10 cm, acute or rounded at base, acuminate at apex. Flowers polygamous, in terminal rusty-pubescent panicles, white. Sepals 5 in 2 series,…

Sapium insigne (Royle) Benth. & Hook. f. (EUPHORBIACEAE) Common namesKannada: Kannu pade.Tulu: Kanappati.Tamil: Sakkarakkalli. Description: Small deciduous trees up to 8 m tall; juice milky. Leaves opposite, crowded at the ends of branchlets, elliptic, oblong-lanceolate to obovate, attenuate at base, acute to acuminate at apex with crenate-serrate margin, bright green; petioles up to 5 cm…

Santalum album L. (SANTALACEAE) Common namesKannada: Srigandha.Malayalam: Chandanam.Sanskrit: Chandana, Taliaparnam.Tamil: Sandanam.Telugu: Chandanamu.English: Sandalwood tree. Description: Compact evergreen trees, reaching heights of up to 10 meters, adorned with slender, drooping branches; characterized by grey bark and exhibiting facultative root parasitism during their early stages. Leaves opposite or whorled, ovate or elliptic-lanceolate, 4-8 x 1.5-4 cm, cuneate…

Samadera indica Gaertner (SIMAROUBACEAE) Common namesKannada: Nippa, Samadera.Malayalam: Karinjotta.Tamil: Nibam,Niepa, Karinjottei. Description: Small evergreen trees up to 12 m tall. Leaves alternate, elliptic-oblong, up to 30 x 11 cm, rounded or subacute at base, acute-acuminate at apex, glossy; shining; petioles ca 2 cm long. Flowers in few- or many- flowered, 7-30 cm long axillary or…