Manipur Forest Flora
A Comprehensive Database of Ligneous Plants of Manipur (India)
Designed & Developed by Forest Research Institute, Dehradun
| Family: Lauraceae | Genus: Cinnamomum | Species: Cinnamomum glanduliferum (Wall.) Meisn. |
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| Synonym | Camphora glandulifera (Wall.) Nees, Cinnamomum cavaleriei H.Lév. | Flower Color | Greenish |
| Common Name | False camphor tree | Flower Type | Panicle |
| English / Trade Name | Nepal camphor tree, | Flowering Period | April-June |
| Vernacular /Local Name | - | Fruiting Period | July-Sept |
| Altitude | 1500-2500 m | Fruit Type | Berry |
| Habit | Tree | Fruit Details | Fruit black, globose, up to 1 cm in diam.; perianth cup in fruit red, narrowly obconical, ca. 1 cm, longitudinally striate, base ca. 1 mm wide, apex up to 6 mm wide and undulate on margin |
| Habitat | Occurs in evergreen broad-leaved forests on hilly land | Bark Type | Fissured |
| Distribution | India, Bhutan, Malaysia, Myanmar and Nepal | Bark Details | Bark gray-brown, longitudinally deeply fissured, peeling off in lamellae, red-brown inside, camphor-scented |
| Distribution in manipur | Jiribam, Northern | Origin | Native |
| Leaf Type | Simple | ||
| Leaf Arrangement | Alternate (leaves born singly along stem) | ||
| Leaf Shape | Elliptic | ||
| Description of Species | Evergreen trees 5-15 m tall up to 30 cm d.b.h., Branchlets green-brown, robust, terete; young branchlets angled, buds ovoid, large; bud scales suborbicular, densely sericeous | Leaf Details | Leaves alternate; petiole 1.5-3(-3.5) cm, robust, concave-convex, subglabrous; leaf blade usually glaucous and greenish abaxially, dark green and shiny adaxially, very variable in shape, elliptic to ovate-elliptic or lanceolate, 6-15 × 4-6.5 cm, those on fertile branchlets smaller, leathery, puberulent abaxially only when young |
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