Flowering class: Dicot
Habit: Shrub to Small Tree
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Barringtonia apiculata R. Knuth |
| synonym | Barringtonia caffra E.Mey. ex R.Knuth |
| synonym | Barringtonia celebesensis R. Knuth |
| synonym | Barringtonia ceramensis R. Knuth, pro parte quoad fructus |
| synonym | Barringtonia ceylanica Gardner ex C.B.Clarke |
| synonym | Barringtonia elongata Korth. |
| synonym | Barringtonia excelsa A.Gray |
| synonym | Barringtonia inclyta Miers ex B.D.Jacks., pro syn. |
| synonym | Barringtonia lageniformis Merr. & L.M.Perry |
| synonym | Barringtonia longiracemosa C.T.White |
| synonym | Barringtonia obtusangula R. Knuth |
| synonym | Barringtonia pallida Koord. & Valeton |
| synonym | Barringtonia racemosa var. elongata Blume |
| synonym | Barringtonia racemosa var. minor Blume |
| synonym | Barringtonia racemosa var. procera Blume |
| synonym | Barringtonia racemosa var. subcuneata Miq. |
| synonym | Barringtonia rosaria Oken |
| synonym | Barringtonia rosata R. Knuth |
| synonym | Barringtonia rumphiana R. Knuth |
| synonym | Barringtonia salomonensis Rech. |
| synonym | Barringtonia stravadium Blanco |
| synonym | Barringtonia terrestris R. Knuth |
| synonym | Barringtonia timorensis Blume |
| synonym | Butonica alba Miers |
| synonym | Butonica apiculata Miers |
| synonym | Butonica caffra Miers |
| synonym | Butonica ceylanica Miers |
| synonym | Butonica inclyta Miers |
| synonym | Butonica racemosa Juss. |
| synonym | Butonica rosata Miers |
| synonym | Butonica rumphiana Miers |
| synonym | Butonica terrestris Miers |
| synonym | Huttum racemosum Britten |
| synonym | Megadendron ambiguum Miers |
| synonym | Megadendron pallidum Miers, pro parte quoad flores |
| synonym | Menichea rosata Sonn. |
| synonym | Michelia apiculata Kuntze |
| synonym | Michelia ceylanica Kuntze |
| synonym | Michelia racemosa Kuntze |
| synonym | Michelia rosata Kuntze |
| synonym | Michelia timorensis Kuntze |
| synonym | Stravadium album Pers., nom. illeg. |
| synonym | Stravadium obtusangulum Blume |
| synonym | Stravadium racemosum Sweet |
| synonym | Stravadium rubrum DC. |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
Small to medium trees. Leaves alternate, tufted at the ends of stout twigs, 15 x 4 cm, obovate, oval, tapering to base, glabrous and shiny; subsessile. Flowers in long, pendulous, mostly terminal, 25-30 cm racemes; pedicels 10-15 mm; bracts triangular. Calyx with 2-5 unequal lobes. Petals 4, oblong or oblong-oval, spreading, pink to red in colour. Stamens numerous in 5 or 6 whorls of which the innermost one is staminodal. Ovary 2-4-celled; fruit ovoid, 5-8 x 2-4 cm.
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Along banks of backwaters and mangrove forests
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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Description
Global Distribution
Indo-Malesia to Polynesia
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: Kottayam, Alappuzha, Kasaragode, Kollam, Thiruvananthapuram
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Occurrence
No Data
📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
Uses
System of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda
Folk medicine
Siddha
Medicinal
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
System Of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda, Folk medicine, Siddha
FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=293
| Attributions | FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=293 |
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📚 Information Listing
References
- Eugenia racemosa L., Sp. Pl. 471. 1753.
- Barringtonia racemosa (L.) Spreng., Syst. Veg. 3:127.1826; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2:507.1879; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 487(344). 1919; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 183. 1984; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 160. 1985; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 163. 1989; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 193. 1994; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 136. 1995; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 291. 2009.
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=293
Information Listing > References
- Eugenia racemosa L., Sp. Pl. 471. 1753.
- Barringtonia racemosa (L.) Spreng., Syst. Veg. 3:127.1826; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2:507.1879; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 487(344). 1919; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 183. 1984; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 160. 1985; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 163. 1989; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 193. 1994; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 136. 1995; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 291. 2009.
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=293
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Equisetopsida C. Agardh |
| Order | Ericales Bercht. & J. Presl |
| Family | Lecythidaceae |
| Genus | Barringtonia |
| Species | Barringtonia racemosa Spreng. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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