Flora of Sri Lanka

Group: 2 Angiosperms (Flowering Plants) - II - Monocotyledons Family: Arecaceae Genus: Loxococcus

Common sinhala name

Dothalu (දෝතලු)

Habit

Small single stem tree

Origin

Endemic

Conservation status

EN - Endangered

Legal status

Protected species under FFPO (Flora and Fauna Protection Ordinance - 2009)

Similar species

No similar species

All vernacular names

Ran Dothalu (රන් දෝතලු), Rath Dothalu (රත් දෝතලු)

Featured image

Loxococcus rupicola (Thwaites) H.Wendl. & Drude

Contributors for Images

FlowerSL (ID-PMR), Aruna Wijenayake (ID-AW), Bathiya Gopallawa (ID-BG), Anusha Gayan (ID-AG), Kasun Lakmal Premadasa (Id-KLP) Cham Lee (ID-CL) Avindra abeyweera (ID - DW) Jacob de Vlas (ID-JdV) - IDA 100%

A dull green stem reaching 5–12 m in height and 10–12 cm in diameter. The stem is slightly swollen at the base and closely ringed with conspicuous leaf scars. The plant typically bears about 10 leaves, which are 1.4–2.5 m long and 1–1.2 m wide. The leaf sheaths are dark with a coppery fringe and sparse scales, forming a well-defined crown shaft 15–20 cm long. The petiole is 30–50 cm long, copper-colored, and scaly with an undulate margin. Leaflets are dull green, coriaceous, and lanceolate, arranged in 15–35 pairs. The seed is globose with ruminate endosperm and a basal embryo.මෙම ශාකය වන සත්ත්ව සහ වෘක්ෂලතා ආරක්ෂක ආඥා පනත යටතේ ආරක්ෂිත ශාක විශේෂයක් බැවින් මල් කැපීම, පැල ගැලවීම ඇතුලු ශාකයට හානිවන කිසිදු කටයුත්තක් සිදුකිරීම එම පනතට අනුව දඩුවම් ලැබිය හැකි වරදක් වේ (පෞද්ගලික හිමිකාරිත්වය සතු ස්ථානයක පැවතියද මෙම නීතිය මෙලෙසින්ම අදාල වේ)

Only in Sri Lanka (Endemic). Genus Loxococcus is monotypic genus and endemic to SL.

A Hand-book to the Flora of Ceylon (Trimen series) - Volume IV - page -322 A Revised Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon - Volume XIV - page - 90