Manipur Forest Flora
A Comprehensive Database of Ligneous Plants of Manipur (India)
Designed & Developed by Forest Research Institute, Dehradun
| Family: Actinidiaceae | Genus: Actinidia | Species: Actinidia callosa Lindl |
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| Synonym | Actinidia alnifolia, Actinidia arisanensis | Flower Color | White |
| Common Name | - | Flower Type | Solitary |
| English / Trade Name | - | Flowering Period | April-June |
| Vernacular /Local Name | - | Fruiting Period | July-Sept |
| Altitude | 400-2600 m | Fruit Type | Follicle |
| Habit | Climber | Fruit Details | Fruit grayish green, subglobose to ovoid or mammilliform, 1.5-5 cm, glabrous, lenticels brownish, orbicular, conspicuous. Seeds 2-2.5 mm |
| Habitat | Occurs in forests, forest margins, thickets, slopes, valleys, streamsides, moist places, also widely cultivated | Bark Type | Smooth |
| Distribution | India, Nepal and Bhutan | Bark Details | Bark reddish-brown, warty or blotched; crown ovoid, dense, young tips silky tomentose |
| Distribution in manipur | Origin | Native | |
| Leaf Type | Simple | ||
| Leaf Arrangement | Alternate (leaves born singly along stem) | ||
| Leaf Shape | Elliptic | ||
| Description of Species | Climbing shrubs, large, deciduous. Floral branchlets glabrous, rarely strigose, lenticels very conspicuous; pith brown, lamellate, or sometimes solid; buds densely rusty strigose; two-year-old branches grayish, with rugose striae when dry, lenticels dehiscent or not pith brown, lamellate | Leaf Details | Leaves 7-15 X 2.5-5 cm, elliptic-lanceolate, oblomg-elliptic, oblanceolate, acute, base cuneate, margin entire, deciduously bulbous hairy beneath, glabrous above |
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