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Division
|
Angiosperms |
Class
|
Dicotledons |
Subclass
|
Apetalae |
Order |
Laurales |
Family |
Lauraceae |
Genus |
Beilschmiedia |
Species |
roxburghiana |
Etymology: |
In the honour of German Botanist Dr. Beilschmied. |
Botanical name:
|
Beilschmiedia roxburghiana Nees |
Local/Trade names: |
Serai-guti |
Conservation status:
|
Wild in North-east India . Cultivated in Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun. |
Digonestic features: |
Fruit dark purple when ripe. |
Description: |
A medium-sized evergreen tree. Bark nearly white to grey or greyish-brown. Leaves crowded at the end of the branches, 7.5-17 x 2-5 cm, oblong to elliptic-lanceolate or elliptic-oblong, shortly acuminate, narrowed at the base. Flowers 6 mm across, yellowish-green in panicles or racemes. Fruit baccate, 2-3.5 cm long, obovoid-oblong, dark purple when ripe. |
Phenology:
|
Fls.: March-May. Frts.: July-August. |
Distribution:
|
North-east India. Myanmar. |
Where to see it: |
Gate No. 2. |
Uses: |
Wood used for boats and tea-boxes. |
Chief Conservator of Forests & Chief Wildlife Warden is the Head of the Department. There is one post of Conservator of Forests & two posts of Deputy Conservator of Forests viz.