Katu - Fren Leaf Tree

Katu - Fren Leaf Tree

Filicium decipiens

Summary

Scientific Classification

Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Angiosperm
Class: Dicotyledonae
Order: Sapindales
Family: Sapindaceae
Genus: Filicium
Species: F.decipiens
Scientific Name: Filicium decipiens (Wight & Arn.) Thwaites.

Common Names:
English: Fern tree, Fern leaf tree.
Hindi: Katu, Puveras.
Kannada: Neeroli, Kaadu hoovarasi.

Discription:

  1. Habit and Habitat: A small tree. Evergreen and semi-evergreen forest, also grown as ornamental tree, Terrestrial habitat.
  2. Distribution: Native to Ethiopia, Malavyi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Madagascer, Comoro islands, India and Srilanka.
  3. Morphology:
    Leaf: Bright green fern like and a winged rachis. Pinnate, leaflets 6 to 8 pairs, glaborous, shinig, opposite or some alternate, sessile, linear - oblong, midrib prominent, rachis with a broad leafy wing on either side between the leaflets, broad at top but narrowing downwards. Infloroscence: Panicles.
    Flower: Small, many, unisexual. Sepals persistent, imbricate, petals as long as sepals, disc hairy.
    Gynoceium: Ovary globous, 2 celled, 1 ovuled, style short, curved.
    Fruit: a droop purple.
    Seeds: one oblong.
    Flowering and Fruiting time: January – February.
  4. Propagation: by seeds.
  5. Importance:
    Suitable for avenue planting. Salt and salinity tolerant. Good for screening. Used for its medicinal value.
  6. Location: Sports Ground, New Building.

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