88
Hopea
parviflora Bedd.
Family
: Dipterocarpaceae
Local Names
: Irumbagam, Kambagam, Iron
wood of Malabar
Flowering
and fruiting period:
January – June
Distribution: Southern Western Ghats
Habitat: Evergreen and semi-evergreen forests, along
in the plains in sacred groves
IUCN
status:
Vulnerable
Endemic: Yes
Uses: Wood is used
extensively in house construction, for planking, as piles for bridges, for
making platform boards, agricultural implements, source of tannin.
Key
Characters:
Evergreen trees, to 35 m high,
buttressed, bark light brown or grey. Leaves simple, alternate, ovate,
lanceolate. Flowers bisexual, creamy yellow, in unilateral terminal and upper
axillary, tomentose racemose panicles. Sepals 5. Petals 5. Stamens 5, rarely
10. Ovary superior, glabrous, ovules 2 in each cell; style short, subulate.
Fruit a nut.
