Kattu-Nocci / White-Wood Chaste Tree
Vitex leucoxylon
- Habit
- Tree
- Found in India
- Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu & more
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Vitex leucoxylon
- Genus
- Vitex
- Family
- Verbenaceae
- Habit
- Tree
- Habitat
- Along river banks, streams in evergreen and semi-Evergreen forests
- Native to
- Indian subcontinent
- Distribution
- India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Myanmar and cultivated in other countries
- Found in India
- Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Meghalaya, Puducherry
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf arrangement
- Palmately compound (hand-like)recorded
- Leaf type
- Palmately compoundrecordedLeaflets radiate outward from a single point, like fingers on a hand.“Leaves compound, digitate;” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
Characters marked “recorded” are for Kattu-Nocci itself; the rest are typical of the Verbenaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Whiterecorded
- Flower arrangement
- CorymbrecordedA flat-topped cluster where outer flower stalks are longer than inner ones.“Inflorescence is corymbose cymes.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Fruit type
- DruperecordedA fleshy fruit with a single hard stone/pit enclosing the seed.“Fruit is purplish black with four seeded smooth drupe.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Zygomorphic (bilaterally symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Cyme
- Fruit
- Drupe
Characters marked “recorded” are for Kattu-Nocci itself; the rest are typical of the Verbenaceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Tamil
- காட்டுநொச்சி kattu-nocci, நீர்நொச்சி nir-nocci
- Kannada
- ಹೊಳೆಲಕ್ಕಿ Hole lakki, ಸೆಂಗೆನಿ Sengeni
- Malayalam
- ആറ്റുനൊച്ചി aatunocci, നീര്നൊച്ചി niirnocci, ആറ്റുനൊച്ചി
- Marathi
- शेरस sheras, सोनगारबी songarbi
About Kattu-Nocci
White-Wood Chaste Tree (Vitex leucoxylon) is a tree in the Verbenaceae family. In India it has been recorded in Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and 4 other states. It grows in along river banks, streams in evergreen and semi-Evergreen forests. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Verbenaceae
Verbena/Teak family
Kattu-Nocci belongs to the Verbenaceae family.
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