Menda PRODUCT NAME
Litsea glutinosa (Lour.) Robinson syn Litsea sebifera Pers syn Sebifera glutinosa Lour. SCIENTIFIC NAME
| Common Name: | Menda |
| Local Name: | Menda (Durva, Halbi, Gondi); Maida lakhri (Hindi); Maramamidi (Telugu). |
| Family: | Lauraceae |
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| Product Description: | Trees up to 16m high, evergreen; bark gray brown, lenticellate; blaze yellow-brown. Leaves clustered at the ends of brachlets, subterminal, pale when dry, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 15-21 x 3.8-5.5cm, apex acute, base tapering, shining, glabrous above, pubescent on the main nerves beneath; petiole 1.5-2.5cm long; secondary nerves 9-13 pairs, oblique, fine above, raised beneath, almost reaching the margin. Flowers in compound umbels, yellowish, usually in subumbellate clusters on slender stalks; bracts 4, orbicular, tomentose. Fruit globose, the size of a pea, on a small, thickened perianth-tube. |
| NTFP Classification: | Others |
DISTRIBUTION
| Countries Found: | India |
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USES AND PARTS USED
| Parts Used: | trunk |
| Uses: | the wood used in construction |
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| Partners: | IUCN |
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