Dipterocarpus indicus Bedd.
Campus Location
Rajagiri Business School, Valley Campus, Kakkanad
Systematic position
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Streptophyta
Class: Equisetopsida
Order: Malvales
Family: Dipterocarpaceae
New Guinea Rosewood is an evergreen tree endemic to Western Ghats of India and it has been recognised as an endangered species under the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2021. It can grow up to a height of 50 m. Leaves are simple, alternate, clustered towards branch ends, pubescent when young and glabrous when mature, broadly elliptic or ovate in shape; 3-8 flowered racemes, axillary; flowers white with red streeks; fruit is a nut, smooth with wing-like persistent calyx lobes.
- The timber is used in plywood.
Dipterocarpus indicus Bedd.
Campus Location
Rajagiri Business School, Valley Campus, Kakkanad
Systematic position
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Streptophyta
Class: Equisetopsida
Order: Malvales
Family: Dipterocarpaceae
New Guinea Rosewood is an evergreen tree endemic to Western Ghats of India and it has been recognised as an endangered species under the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2021. It can grow up to a height of 50 m. Leaves are simple, alternate, clustered towards branch ends, pubescent when young and glabrous when mature, broadly elliptic or ovate in shape; 3-8 flowered racemes, axillary; flowers white with red streeks; fruit is a nut, smooth with wing-like persistent calyx lobes.
- The timber is used in plywood.