You are here
Magnoliopsida
Tectona grandis L. f.
EOL Text
Distribution: Native of tropical southern Asia and Malaysia, widely cultivated for its highly priced timber.
License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
Rights holder/Author | eFloras.org Copyright © Missouri Botanical Garden |
Source | http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=200019434 |
Rounded Global Status Rank: GNR - Not Yet Ranked
Reasons: Native of India-Laos planted for timber or ornament in various tropical areas including the west Indies from Cuba and Jamaica to Trinidad and from Panama to Brazil. Grown in southern Florida. Grown experimentally or for ornament at low elevations in Puerto Rico.
"
Flower
In axillary/or terminal cymose panicles, dichotomously branched; whitish-yellow. Flowering from June-September.
Fruit
A globose drupe, with a stony endocarp and spongy epicarp; seeds oblong. Fruiting throughout the year.
Field tips
Bark light brown or grey. Stem quadrangular. Leaves very large, rough.
Leaf Arrangement
Opposite-decussate
Leaf Type
Simple
Leaf Shape
Elliptic
Leaf Apex
Obtuse-acute
Leaf Base
Rounded-acute
Leaf Margin
Entire
"
License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ |
Rights holder/Author | Keystone Foundation, India Biodiversity Portal |
Source | http://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/31257 |
"Good source of nectar. Leaves made into plates.
Wood very hard, very valuable and great demand as for timber.
"
License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ |
Rights holder/Author | Keystone Foundation, India Biodiversity Portal |
Source | http://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/31257 |
Deciduous tree, up to 50 m tall, younger parts densely pubescent with stellate hairs. Leaves broadly elliptic, (10-)25-50(-80) cm long, (5-)20-40(-50) cm broad, entire to repand-dentate, acute or shortly acuminate, glabrescent, shining-green above, paler and tomentose beneath. Terminal cymes usually 30-40 cm long, and nearly as broad. Flowers c. 6 mm across, white, rarely pinkish. Calyx 3-4.5 mm long, campanulate, 5-7-toothed, bladder-like and enlarged up to 2.5 cm in fruit, brittle and dry. Corolla-tube 1.5-3 mm long; lobes 5-7, ovate-elliptic, 2.5-3 mm long, straight or reflexed. Stamens 2.5-4 mm long, exserted. Fruit subglobose to tetragonally flattened, c. 1.5 cm in diameter, tomentose, usually slightly 4-lobed at the apex.
License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
Rights holder/Author | eFloras.org Copyright © Missouri Botanical Garden |
Source | http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=200019434 |
Leaves used for thatching and serving plate. Wood used for house construction and making agricultural implements.
License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ |
Rights holder/Author | Keystone Foundation, India Biodiversity Portal |
Source | http://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/31257 |
Trees to 40 m tall. Branchlets gray to grayish brown, 4-angled, yellowish to grayish brown stellate tomentose. Petiole robust, 2-4 cm; leaf blade ovate-elliptic to ovate, 15-45(-70) X 8-23(-37) cm, papery, abaxially densely grayish brown to yellowish brown minutely stellate tomentose, adaxially scabrous and puberulent along veins, base cuneate and de-current, margin entire, apex acuminate to obtuse, veins 7-12 pairs. Panicles 25-40 X 30 cm. Flowers fragrant. Calyx tube 2.5-3 mm, with white stellate hairs. Corolla white; tube 2.5-3 mm, outside puberulent glandular; lobes ca. 2 mm, obtuse. Ovary strigose. Style 3-4 mm. Fruit globose, 1.2-1.8 cm in diam., minutely tomentose. Fl. Jun-Aug, fr. Sep-Dec.
License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
Rights holder/Author | eFloras.org Copyright © Missouri Botanical Garden |
Source | http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200019434 |
"Habit: A large deciduous tree, upto 15m."
License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ |
Rights holder/Author | Keystone Foundation, India Biodiversity Portal |
Source | http://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/31257 |
Introduced and cultivated in some parts of Punjab and Sind. It is very sensitive to frost when young.
License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
Rights holder/Author | eFloras.org Copyright © Missouri Botanical Garden |
Source | http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=200019434 |