Chandigarh Forest Flora
A Comprehensive Database of Ligneous Plants of Chandigarh (India)
Designed & Developed by Bioinformatics Centre, Forest Research Institute, Dehradun
| Family: Sterculaceae | Genus: Pterospermum | Species:
Pterospermum acerifolium (Linn.)
Willd.
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Habit |
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Flower |
Fruit |
Bark |
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| Synonym | Cavanilla acerifolia (Linn.) J. F. Gmel., Dombeya acerifolia (Linn.) Gaertn., Pentapes acerifolia Linn., Pterospermadendron acerifolium (Linn.) Kuntze | Flower Color | White |
| Common Name | Kanak Champa, Moragos, Muchkund | Flower Type | Cyme |
| English / Trade Name | Dinnerplate tree, Maple-leaved Lancewood,Kanak Champa,BayurTree,Maple-leaved Bayur Tree,Torch Tree | Flowering Period | April-June |
| Vernacular /Local Name | Kanak Champa | Fruiting Period | April-June |
| Altitude | Fruit Type | Capsule | |
| Habit | Tree | Fruit Details | Capsules stalked, oblong, 5-angled, woody and brown-tubercled. Seeds obliquely ovoid, compressed with a large membranous wing. |
| Habitat | Grown as avenue tree | Bark Type | Smooth |
| Distribution | Continental Asia; introduced elsewhere | Bark Details | Bark smooth, ash-coloured. |
| Distribution in chandigarh | Chandigarh Botanical Garden and Nature Park, Sector 37 | Origin | Native |
| Leaf Type | Simple | ||
| Leaf Arrangement | Alternate (leaves born singly along stem) | ||
| Leaf Shape | Palmate | ||
| Description of Species | Tree, 12-15 m tall; bark smooth, ash-coloured; branchlets ferruginous-tomentose. Leaves polymorphous, obovate to orbicular or oblong, cordate, sometimes peltate at base, coarsely serrate at margin, entire or sinuately lobed at apex, grey-tomentose beneath; stipules multifid, caducous. Flowers axillary, solitary or in 2 or 3 flowered cymes, fragrant; bracts semilunar; bracteoles laciniate, caducous. Sepals linear-oblong, obtuse, fleshy, densely tomentose outside, villous inside. Petals linear-oblong, slightly shorter than sepals, stellate-pubescent outside, white. Staminodes clavate. Ovary oblong, 5-loculed; ovules many in 2 rows; stigma clavate. Capsules stalked, oblong, 5-angled, woody and brown-tubercled. Seeds obliquely ovoid, compressed with a large membranous wing. | Leaf Details | Leaves polymorphous, obovate to orbicular or oblong, cordate, sometimes peltate at base, coarsely serrate at margin, entire or sinuately lobed at apex, grey-tomentose beneath; stipules multifid, caducous. |
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