Chandigarh Forest Flora
A Comprehensive Database of Ligneous Plants of Chandigarh (India)
Designed & Developed by Bioinformatics Centre, Forest Research Institute, Dehradun
| Family: Sterculaceae | Genus: Pterygota | Species:
Pterygota alata (Roxb.)
R.Br.
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Fruit |
Bark |
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| Synonym | Clompanus alata (Roxb.) Kuntze, Sterculia alata Roxb., Pterygota roxburghii Schott & Endl., Sterculia coccinea Wall , Sterculia heynei Bedd. | Flower Color | Brownish |
| Common Name | Tula, Buddha's coconut tree | Flower Type | Panicle |
| English / Trade Name | Buddha's coconut tree | Flowering Period | April-June |
| Vernacular /Local Name | Tula | Fruiting Period | April-June |
| Altitude | Up to 700m | Fruit Type | Follicle |
| Habit | Tree | Fruit Details | Follicles, globose or ovoid, woody; seeds ca. 30, winged. |
| Habitat | Evergreen and semi-evergreen forests | Bark Type | Fissured |
| Distribution | South Asia and Myanmar | Bark Details | Bark grey, longitudinally arranged lenticels; blaze yellowish cream. |
| Distribution in chandigarh | Sector 5, Sector 17, Sector 23 | Origin | Native |
| Leaf Type | Simple | ||
| Leaf Arrangement | Alternate (leaves born singly along stem) | ||
| Leaf Shape | Ovate | ||
| Description of Species | Deciduous trees, to 35 m high, bole straight, buttressed; bark, greyish with light and dark patches, smooth; blaze creamy yellow; young parts covered with dense golden brown stellate-pubescence. Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, clutered at twig ends; stipules lateral, caducous and leaving scar; broadly ovate or oblong-ovate, apex acute or slightly acuminate, base cordate or subtruncate, margin entire or slightly undulate, thinly coriaceous, glabrous; tertiary nerves distantly reticulo-percurrent. Flowers unisexual or polygamous, panicles, calyx 5-partite, male flowers: staminal column cylindric bearing 4-5 phalanges, female flowers staminodes round the base of the ovary; carpels 5, free, superior, ovules many in each; style short, recurved; stigma 2-lobed. Fruit of 3-5 follicles, seeds oblong, brown winged. | Leaf Details | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, clutered at twig ends; stipules lateral, caducous and leaving scar; broadly ovate or oblong-ovate, apex acute or slightly acuminate, base cordate or subtruncate, margin entire or slightly undulate, thinly coriaceous, glabrous; tertiary nerves distantly reticulo-percurrent |
