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ACCESSION NO: KFRIw 53

  • Scientific Name: Canarium strictum Roxb.
  • Family: Burseraceae
  • Trade Name: Black damar/ white dhup
  • Common Name: Kundirikka-payin, Thellippayin
  • പൊതുവായ പേരുകള്‍: കുന്തിരിക്ക - പയിൻ ,തെല്ലിപ്പയിൻ
  • Native: South India, Sikkim to China (South Yunnan) and North Thailand
  • Specimen from: Walayar, Palakkad
  • State & Region: Kerala, India
  • Date of Collection: Thursday, February 13, 1986
  • Collected by: K. M. Bhat, K. V. Bhat & P. K. Thulasidas
  • General Characteristics: Trees, to 30 m high, bole straight, buttressed; bark 4-7 mm thick, surface grey-brown or yellow,Leaves imparipinnate, alternate.Flowers polygamous bright yellow,fruit a drupe.
  • Wood Anatomy: Growth rings are scarcely distinct. Vessels diffuse-porous, medium. moderately few to few, solitary, or in radial multiples of 2, 3, or more; often filled with tyloses and yellowish deposits.Rays moderately broad, rather widely spaced.
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