Manipur Forest Flora
A Comprehensive Database of Ligneous Plants of Manipur (India)
Designed & Developed by Forest Research Institute, Dehradun
| Family: Malvaceae | Genus: Kydia | Species: Kydia calycina Roxb. |
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| Synonym | Kydia fraterna Roxb., Kydia roxburghianaWight | Flower Color | White |
| Common Name | Bharanga, Bhoti, Pulia | Flower Type | Corymb |
| English / Trade Name | Roxburgh's Kydia, Kydia | Flowering Period | July-Sept |
| Vernacular /Local Name | - | Fruiting Period | Oct-Dec |
| Altitude | Up to 1500 m | Fruit Type | Capsule |
| Habit | Tree | Fruit Details | Fruit subglobose, stellate-tomentose, completely enclosed within the calyx; seeds one in each locule, reniform, concentrically striated, glabrous, brownish |
| Habitat | Occours in deforested slopes, in mixed and deciduous forests | Bark Type | Exfoliating |
| Distribution | India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Bhutan and China | Bark Details | Bark 5-6 mm thick, greyish-brown, irregularly flaking off in thin small scales |
| Distribution in manipur | , Central, Eastern | Origin | Native |
| Leaf Type | Simple | ||
| Leaf Arrangement | Alternate (leaves born singly along stem) | ||
| Leaf Shape | Ovate | ||
| Description of Species | Deciduous tree 15-20 m tall, leaves sub-orbicular or ovate-rounded, subcordate at base, acute or obtuse at apex, entire or irregularly serrate, more or less 3 or 5 cuspidate, pubescent; stipules subulate. Flowers in axillary or terminal panicles. Calyx cup-shapedd; 5 sepals, connate at base, persistent. Petals 5, white or pink, obcordate., pistillode absent in male flowers. Fruit a capsule, subglobose, stellate-tomentose, completely enclosed within the calyx; seeds one in each locule, reniform, concentrically striated, glabrous, brownish | Leaf Details | Leaves sub-orbicular or ovate-rounded, subcordate at base, acute or obtuse at apex, entire or irregularly serrate, more or less 3 or 5 cuspidate, pubescent; stipules subulate |
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