Category: T

Trewia polycarpa  Benth.  (EUPHORBIACEAE) Common namesMalayalam: Pambara kumbil.Tamil: Ana-thuvarai. Description: Trees up to 15 m tall. Leaves subopposite, broadly ovate, up to 20 cm long and often as broad as long, truncate or cordate at base, acuminate at apex; petioles up to 7.5 cm long. Flowers appearing before the leaves. Male flowers in short racemes; female in…

Trichilia connaroides (Wight & Arn.) Benth (MELIACEAE) Common nameKannada: Kora. Description: Trees up to 20 m tall. Leaves 5-9 foliolate; leaf rachis up to 30 cm; leaflets ovate, elliptic, acuminate, submembranous, pale beneath 8-14 x 3.5 – 7 cm. The panicle is either equal to or longer than the leaf. Sepals are pubescent on the…

Tectona grandis  L. f. (VERBENACEAE) Common namesKannada: Saguvani, Tega.Malayalam: Tekka.Tamil: Kalindi, Sagan, Takku.Telugu: Pedda teku.English: Teak tree. Description: Large deciduous trees, up to 30 m tall with light brown or grey bark; branchlets quadrangular, channeled, stellately tomentose. Leaves opposite, elliptic or obovate, 30-60 x 15-30 cm, truncate or shortly narrowed at base, acute or acuminate at apex,…

TeTerminalia bellirica (Gaertner) Roxb.  (COMBRETACEAE) Common namesKannada & Tulu: Shanthi.Hindi: Bahera.Tamil: Akkam, Kalanduri, Thani.Telugu: Bhutavasamu tadim, Tandra, Vibhitakamu. Description: Deciduous trees, up to 15 m tall; bark bluish-grey with vertical cracks. Leaves clustered at the ends of the branchlets, alternate, broadly elliptic to elliptic-obovate, up to 20 x 14 cm, cuneate at base, subacute or shortly acuminate,…

Terminalia paniculata Roth  (COMBRETACEAE) Common namesKannada: Mathi.Tulu: Maruva.Malayalam: Marutu, Pe marutu, Vem marutu.Tamil: Pei kadukai, Marudu.Telugu: Nimiri, Pulamaddi, Putamanu. Description: Deciduous trees, 10-12 m tall with dark brown cracked bark; young parts softly pubescent. Leaves subopposite or upper ones alternate, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, up to 20 x 9 cm, rounded or cordate at base, acute or…

Terminalia chebula Retz. (COMBRETACEAE) Common namesKannada & Tulu: Alale, Anile.Malayalam: Divya, Katukka.Tamil: Amagola, Kadukkai.Telugu: Karakkai.English: Black Myrobalan, Chebulic Myrobalan. Description: Deciduous trees; up to 25 m tall with dark brown rough bark. Leaves alternate or sub-opposite, ovate or elliptic-oblong, up to 18 x 9.5 cm, rounded or cordate at base, obtuse or acute at apex,…

Terminalia arjuna (Roxb. ex DC.) Wight & Arn. (COMBRETACEAE) Common namesKannada: Bili mathi.Malayalam: Vella marutu.Sanskrit: Arjuna, Dhananjaya.Tamil: Vellamarda, Kula maruthu.Telugu: Tittu maddi. Description: Large deciduous trees up to 25 m tall; bark smooth, greenish white, peding off in large flat pieces; young parts with yellowish-brown hairs. Leaves usually sub-opposite, elliptic-lanceolate or elliptic-oblong, up to 15…

Terminalia alata Heyne ex Roth (COMBRETACEAE) Common namesKannada: Banapu, Kirimatti.Tulu: Banpu.Malayalam: Tehmbara.Sanskrit: Dharaphala, Saradru.Tamil: Kara maruda.Telugu: Tani.English: Laurel tree. Description: These are sizable deciduous trees, reaching heights of up to 30 meters, characterized by grey or black bark with deep, cracked roughness. The young parts of the trees are covered with yellowish-brown pubescence. Leaves sub-opposite…

Tabernaemontana heyneana Wallich  (APOCYNACEAE) Common namesKannada: Bilikodasalu, Kokkekai.Malayalam: Kundalapala. Description: Small deciduous trees, up to 8 m tall with milky latex; bark grey, rough. Leaves opposite, elliptic-oblong or lanceolate, 8-20 x 3-7 cm; acute at base, acuminate at apex, coriaceous; main nerves 12-16 pairs; petioles 0.8 – 2 cm long. Flowers in terminal or lateral corymbose…

Tarena asiatica (L.) Kuntze ex K. Schumann (RUBIACEAE) Common namesTamil: Kura.Telugu: Komi. Description: Evergreen trees, up to 12 m tall; young parts often resinous. Leaves opposite, elliptic-lanceolate, ca 10 x 3 cm, rounded at base, shortly acuminate at apex, coriaceous, shining, turning black in drying. Flowers in terminal corymbose cymes, white, fragrant. Calyx tube ovoid,…