✿Celastraceae · Cassine
Ceylon Teak
Cassine glauca
Treeoutdoor
- Habit
- Tree
- Found in India
- Maharashtra, Karnataka, Rajasthan & more
- Flowering
- March-December
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Cassine glauca
- Genus
- Cassine
- Family
- Celastraceae
- Habit
- Tree
- Habitat
- Deciduous forests
- Habitat type
- Forest
- Native to
- India
- Distribution
- India, Sri Lanka, Indo-china, Thailand, Indonesia, Malay peninsula, Philippines
- Found in India
- Maharashtra, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Chhattisgarh, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Kerala, Uttarakhand, West Bengal
- Flowering & fruiting
- March-December
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf shape
- Glossy oval, blue-green (glaucous)recorded
Typical of the family
Characters marked “recorded” are for Ceylon Teak itself; the rest are typical of the Celastraceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Cyme
- Fruit
- Capsule
Typical of the Celastraceae family — flowering plants only; individual species can differ.
Local Names
- Malayalam
- കരുവാളി
About Ceylon Teak
Ceylon Teak (Cassine glauca) belongs to the Celastraceae family, where it grows as a tree. In India it has been recorded in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Rajasthan and 9 other states. It grows in deciduous forests. Flowering and fruiting run from March to December.
Botanical family
Celastraceae
Staff-Tree Family
Ceylon Teak belongs to the Celastraceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
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