Hopea racophloea

Syn. Hopea malabarica

IUCN Red List Endangered (EN)

Local name

Indian Hopea (English)
Thondupoliyan Pongu (Malayalam)
Karung Kongu (Tamil)

Tree type

Evergreen Deciduous

Family: Dipterocarpaceae

20m

Indicated uses

Medicinal Edible Ornamental Avenue Other

Flowering & fruiting

Flowering Fruiting

Key characters

Bark

Grey-brown, rough and scaly, with resin

Leaves

Simple, alternate, ovate-elliptic, glossy, base oblique, with prominent parallel veins

Flower

Small, pale yellow-white, in axillary panicles

Fruit / Seeds

Nut with 2 long and 3 short calyx wings; 1 seed; recalcitrant

Did you know?

It is endemic to India, confined only to Kerala and Karnataka. It is known from 16 locations. The population is expected to be less than 750 mature individuals, with less than 80 mature individuals in the largest subpopulation.

Distribution

Southern Western Ghats (Kerala, Tamil Nadu); low-elevation wet evergreen forest