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Vateria indica (white dammar)

Synonyms: Vateria malabarica

Wikipedia Abstract

Vateria indica, the white dammar, is a species of plant in the Dipterocarpaceae family. It is endemic to India. It is threatened by habitat loss. This tree grows like a palm but has blunt thorns along its trunk.
View Wikipedia Record: Vateria indica

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Vateria indica

Attributes

Leaf Type [1]  Evergreen
Specific Gravity [2]  0.48
Structure [1]  Tree

Predators

Greeniella tentaculata[3]
Nacaduba kurava (Transparent Six-line Blue)[4]
Parlatoria vateriae[3]
Porogymnaspis indica[3]
Rutherfordia major (large snow-scale)[3]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
2Chave 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.
3Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
4HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
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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