Summary
Place of publication:
Pl. Coromandel 2:7, t. 113. 1799 ("1798")
Comment:
original publication seen
Verified:
04/09/1996
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
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Common names
English
black rosewood – blackwood – Bombay blackwood – East Indian rosewood – Indian blackwood – Indian rosewood – Malabar rosewood – India
beete – Indonesian
sonobrits – sonokeling – Urdu (Pakistan)
shisham –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | Nepal | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Malesia | Malaysia | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | North Indian Ocean | India | Andaman and Nicobar | |
Native
Asia-Tropical
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INDIAN SUBCONTINENT:
India, Nepal
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MALESIA:
Malaysia
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NORTH INDIAN OCEAN:
India [Andaman and Nicobar]
Economic Uses
Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
Environmental | potential for agroforestry | | Soerianegara, I. & R. H. M. J. Lemmens, eds. 1993. Timber trees: major commercial timbers. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- 5(1):160. |
Fuels | potential as fuelwood | | Nasir, S. M. & M. Athar. 1998. Fuelwood as an energy source. Phytologia 85:106. |
Materials | wood | | Soerianegara, I. & R. H. M. J. Lemmens, eds. 1993. Timber trees: major commercial timbers. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- 5(1):160. |
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2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network
(GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://ausgenebank.agriculture.vic.gov.au/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=13160.
Accessed 19 September 2024.