Larval Host Plant
Other notes
Natural History: Native Evergreen Tree.
It is a medium-sized tree found in the moist forest slopes of the Indian subcontinent to central Malesia. Its specific epithet refers to its type locality, the Timor Islands in Malesia. The bark is scattered with short lenticels and emits a pungent odour. The leaves are three-nerved like Cinnamomum but are distinguished by serrated margins. Its inflorescences are branched cymes, with proximal clusters bearing male flowers, while distal ones bearing both male and female flowers. The fruit is a beaked drupe, turning red upon maturity. Flowering occurs from January to April (Sankara Rao and Deepak Kumar 2024; WFO 2024).
Other Common Name: Timor Stinkwood.
References:
Nitin, R., V. C. Balakrishnan, P. V. Churi, S. Kalesh, S. Prakash, and K. Kunte. 2018. Larval host plants of the butterflies of the Western Ghats, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 10(4): 11495–11550. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.3104.10.4.11495-11550.
Sankara Rao, K. and Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. Accessed on 19 Apr 2024. URL: https://indiaflora-ces.iisc.ac.in/herbsheet.php?id=2383&cat=13.
WFO (2024): Celtis timorensis Span. Accessed on 19 Apr 2024. URL: http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000593788.
Page citation
Joshi, R. and N. Kawthankar 2024. Celtis timorensis Span. – Timor Hackberry. In Kunte, K., S. Sondhi, and P. Roy (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.12. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/celtis-timorensis, accessed 2024/05/02.