Toona ciliata

 

Family: MELIACEAE

Malayalam Name(s): Arana, Thunnam, Vedivembu, Ekana, Chandanavembu, Ikana, Mathagirivembu, Padukaranna, Vembu

English name(s): Australian redcedar, Indian mahogany, Red cedar, Sandal neem, Toon tree

Habit: Tree

Flowering & Fruiting: February-May

Habitat: Semi-evergreen and evergreen forests

Description: Semi-deciduous trees, to 30 m high, bark 10-15 mm thick, reddish-brown, rough, exfoliating in large flakes; fibrous. Leaves paripinnate, alternate, clustered at the tips of branchlets, estipulate; leaflets 12-30, opposite or subopposite 7-16 x 2-7 cm, ovate, ovate-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, apex acuminate, base oblique, margin entire or serrate, chartaceous, glossy above, pale beneath; rachis 13-90 cm long, slender, grooved above, glabrous, swollen at base; lateral nerves 10-15 pairs, pinnate, slender, prominent, intercostae reticulate, faint. Flowers bisexual, 8 mm across, white, in terminal or axillary drooping panicles; peduncle to 2 cm; pedicel to 2 mm long. Calyx cupular; lobes 5, ovate, tomentose, margin ciliate. Petals 5, white, 5 x 3 mm, oblong, spreading, ciliate, imbricate. Stamens 5, free, inserted on the top of disc; filaments subulate; anthers oblong, versatile; disc thick, 5-lobed, pubescent. Ovary superior, ovoid, 2 mm long, pubescent, 5-celled, ovules 8-12 per cell, pendulous; style short, stigma discoid. Fruit a capsule, 1.8-3 x 1.5 cm, 5-valved; seeds many, oblong, thin, winged at both ends.

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