Chandigarh Forest Flora
A Comprehensive Database of Ligneous Plants of Chandigarh (India)
Designed & Developed by Bioinformatics Centre, Forest Research Institute, Dehradun
| Family: Combretaceae | Genus: Terminalia | Species: Terminalia myriocarpa Heurck & Muell. |
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| Synonym | Myrobalanus myriocarpa (Van Heurck & Müll. Arg.) Kuntze, Pentaptera saja Buch.-Ham., Terminalia saja Steud. | Flower Color | Yellow - Orange |
| Common Name | Flower Type | Solitary | |
| English / Trade Name | Hollock | Flowering Period | Jan-March |
| Vernacular /Local Name | Tolhao | Fruiting Period | Jan-March |
| Altitude | About 1500 m. | Fruit Type | Drupe |
| Habit | Tree | Fruit Details | Fruit stipitate, yellowish |
| Habitat | grows typically in moist situations near streams | Bark Type | Smooth |
| Distribution | Bangladesh, Bhutan, North East India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam | Bark Details | minutely brownish when young, or rarely densely brownish |
| Distribution in chandigarh | Chandigarh Botanical Garden and Nature Park, Sector 10 | Origin | Native |
| Leaf Type | Simple | ||
| Leaf Arrangement | Opposite (leaves in pairs along stem) | ||
| Leaf Shape | Oblong | ||
| Description of Species | An evergreen tree up to 35 m tall. Develops a straight trunk with a buttressed base, smoothish grey bark becoming flaking on older. Leaves opposite with stout petiole and 2 stalked glands at apex; Leaf - blade oblong-elliptic or oblong-lanceolate, thickly papery, sparsely brownish hirsute abaxially and on veins adaxially when young, glabrescent or later glabrous, or rarely appressed yellowish brown sericeous when young, later sparsely (except on veins) hairy abaxially and subglabrous adaxially, base obtuse, margin entire or slightly undulate, rarely conspicuously toothed, apex with short, oblique tip. Flower in terminal or axillary, simple or compound, long, slender spikes, many grouped at branchlet apex and forming a large panicle axes densely yellow tomentose. Fruit stipitate, yellowish | Leaf Details | Leaves opposite with stout petiole and 2 stalked glands at apex; Leaf - blade oblong-elliptic or oblong-lanceolate, thickly papery, sparsely brownish hirsute abaxially and on veins adaxially when young, glabrescent or later glabrous, or rarely appressed yellowish brown sericeous when young, later sparsely (except on veins) hairy abaxially and subglabrous adaxially, base obtuse, margin entire or slightly undulate, rarely conspicuously toothed, apex with short, oblique tip. |
