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Manilkara hexandra

Synonyms: Kaukenia hexandra (homotypic); Manilkara emarginata (heterotypic); Mimusops hexandra (heterotypic); Mimusops indica (heterotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Manilkara hexandra is a species in the tribe Sapoteae, in the Sapotaceae family that is native to much of south Asia (China: Hainan and southern Guangxi provinces; the Indian Subcontinent: Bangladesh, India, and Sri Lanka; Indo-China: Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. It is used as rootstock for M. zapota, the latter being grafted on the former, and its fruit is edible. It is locally known as Khirni tree in Bangladesh and India. It is also called "Palu" (පලු) in Sinhalese or Palai and Rayan.
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Attributes

Specific Gravity [1]  1.06

Predators

Indomyrlaea eugraphella[2]
Psittacula krameri (Rose-ringed Parakeet)[3]

External References

Citations

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♦ 1Chave J, Coomes D, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Swenson NG, Zanne AE (2009) Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Ecology Letters 12: 351-366. Zanne AE, Lopez-Gonzalez G, Coomes DA, Ilic J, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Miller RB, Swenson NG, Wiemann MC, Chave J (2009) Data from: Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Dryad Digital Repository.
♦ 2HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 3Feeding Ecology of Rose-Ringed Parakeet Psittacula krameri in Polonnaruwa, Sarath.W.Kotagama, G.M.Dunnet, Siyoth Vol. 2(2): 50-55 (2007)
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0