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ACCESSION NO: KFRIw 616
- Scientific Name: Gmelina arborea Roxb. ex Sm.
- Family: Lamiaceae (Verbenaceae)
- Trade Name: Melina, Gmelina, Gamari , Kumbil
- Common Name: Beechwood, White teak, Kumpil, Yemane, Gmar (Bngladesh), Yemane (Myanmar, Malaysia, Philippines)
- പൊതുവായ പേരുകള്: വൈറ്റ് ടീക് , ഗാമാരി
- Native: Bangladesh, India, China, Cambodia, Japan, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam , India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Southern China, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia
- Specimen from:
- Region: Myanmar
- Collected by: P. K. Thulasidas
- General Characteristics: Trees, or shrubs, deciduous trees, to 18 m high, bark 8-10 mm thick, white or whitish-grey, smooth, leaves simple, opposite, inflorescence terminal, panicle.Flower bisexual, complete, zygomorphic, blue or purple-violet, purple-pink, white, brownish yellow
- Wood Anatomy: Growth rings are scarcely distinct. Vessels diffuse-porous, Large to medium, few to moderately numerous, mostly solitary, and in short radial multiples of 2 or 3; tyloses abundant. Rays Broad to moderately broad, few, rather widely spaced.
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