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Chukrasia
tabularis A.
Juss.
Synonym
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Chukrasia nimmonii Graham ex Wight
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Family
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Meliaceae
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Local name
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English- Chitta Gong Wood
Malayalam-
Chuvannakil
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Flowering
and fruiting period
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May - March
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Distribution
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Indo – Burma
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Distribution
in kerala
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Palakkad, Kasaragode, Idukki, Malappuram, Kannur, Kollam,
Thrissur, Thiruvananthapuram, Wayanad
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Habitat
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Semi-evergreen,
moist deciduous, evergreen and shola forests.
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IUCN Status
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Least concern
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Uses
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The heartwood and gum are used
for fever, skin diseases, headache and vomiting.
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Key botanical characters:
A large deciduous tree with
lenticellate branches. Bark grey-brown, rough with age and lenticeled. Leaves
are pinnately compound with 5-8 pairs of leaflets, which are ovate, acute
with unequal halves of the lamina. Flowers are small fragrant, in
many-flowered panicles. Calyx is five-toothed. Stamens are united into a 10-toothed, Fruit is an ovoid capsule and with winged seeds.
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