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ACCESSION NO: KFRIw 631
- Scientific Name: Calophyllum inophyllum Linn.
- Family: Calophyllaceae
- Trade Name: Beach calophyllum, Bintago
- Common Name: Poon, Punna (India), Bintangur (Indonesia), Krathing (Thailand), Penaga (Malaysia), Ponnyet (Myanmar)
- പൊതുവായ പേരുകള്: പുന്ന
- Native: Kenya to Mozambique, West Indian Ocean, Tropical & Subtropical Asia to Pacific
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- Collected by: P. K. Thulasidas & K. M. Bhat
- General Characteristics: Calophyllum species are evergreen trees or shrubs, bark smooth, leaves simple, opposite, decussate,lanceolate-obovate to elliptic-oblong, flowers bisexual or rarely polygamous. Fruit indehiscent drupe.
- Wood Anatomy: Wood is diffuse-porous. Growth rings indistinct.Vessels large to medium, few exclusively solitary appear as radial or oblique chains, occasionally filled with tyloses and gummy deposits.Rays fine to very fine, distinct, numerous closely spaced lines.
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