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ACCESSION NO: KFRIw 265

  • Scientific Name: Cinnamomum parthenoxylon (Jack) Meisn.
  • Synonym: Cinnamomum porrectum Kosterm
  • Family: Lauraceae
  • Trade Name: Medang
  • Common Name: Selasian wood, Saffrol laurel
  • പൊതുവായ പേരുകള്‍: സെലേഷ്യൻ വുഡ്
  • Native: Nepal to south China and west & south Malesia
  • Specimen from:
  • Region: China
  • Collected by: K. M. Bhat
  • General Characteristics: Evergreen trees; trunk straight, 10-20 m tall. Bark dark green-brown, gray-yellow on upper part, leaf blade greenish or glaucous green abaxially, dark green and shiny adaxially, usually elliptic-ovate or narrowly elliptic-ovate, Flowers green-yellow, small, Fruit black, globose.
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