Hopea parviflora Bedd.
ഇരുമ്പകം
| Family: | DIPTEROCARPACEAE |
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| Sub-Family: | Not available | ||||
| English Name: | Iron Wood of Malabar | ||||
| Synonym: | Not available | ||||
| Common Name: | Kambagam | ||||
| Flowering & Fruiting Period: | January - June | ||||
| Distribution: | WesternGhats | ||||
| Habitat: | Evergreen and semi-evergreen forests, in the plains in sacred groves | ||||
| Uses: | Wood is used extensively in house construction, for planking, as piles for bridges, for making platform boards, agricultural implements, source of tannin | ||||
| Key Characteristics: | Evergreen trees, to 35 m high, buttressed, bark light brown or grey. Leaves simple, alternate, ovate, lanceolate. Flowers bisexual, creamy yellow, in unilateral terminal and upper axillary, tomentoseracemose panicles.Sepals 5.Petals 5.Stamens 5, rarely 10.Ovary superior, glabrous, ovules 2 in each cell; style short, subulate. Fruit a nut. | ||||