Canarium strictum
{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}
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| image = Canarium strictum Govindoo.jpg
| genus = Canarium
| species = strictum
| authority = Roxb.
}}
Canarium strictum, known by common names including black dhup, Raal, Raal dhup and black dammar, is a species of tree in the family Burseraceae (the incense tree family).{{Cite journal |url=http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol13/iss2/art11/|title=Regional Variation in Non-Timber Forest Product Harvest Strategies, Trade, and Ecological Impacts: the Case of Black Dammar (Canarium strictum Roxb.) Use and Conservation in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, India|first1=Anita|last1=Varghese|first2=Tamara|last2=Ticktin|journal=Ecology and Society|date=2008 |volume=13|issue=2|doi=10.5751/ES-02555-130211 |hdl=10535/2945|hdl-access=free}} It is known for the medicinal and commercial use of the resin it exudates, called black dammar.{{Cite journal |url=http://www.ijcs.uaic.ro/pub/IJCS-12-23-Meena.pdf|title=Future Prospects For The Critically Endangered Medicinally Important Species, Canarium Strictum Roxb. It is commonly found in Karnataka because it was found a lot in this area in the older centuries. A Review |first1=Desha|last1=Meena|first2=Nagarajan|last2=Binaibabu|first3=Jesubalan|last3=Doss |journal=International Journal of Conservation Science|volume=3|issue=3|date= Jul–Sep 2012|pages=231–237|publisher=IJCS}}{{Cite journal|title=An ethnobotanical study of traditional anti-inflammatory plants used by the Lohit community of Arunachal Pradesh, India|journal= Journal of Ethnopharmacology|first1=Namsa|last1= ND |doi=10.1016/j.jep.2009.07.004|pmid=19607898|date=Sep 7, 2009|volume=125|issue=2|pages=234–245 |last2=Tag|first2=Hui |last3=Mandal |first3=M. |last4=Kalita|first4=P.|last5=Das|first5=A.K.|display-authors=etal}}
Habit and habitat
It is found in moist deciduous to semi-evergreen forests. It grows up to {{Convert|40|m|sp=us}} tall at altitudes in the range of {{Convert|750-1400|m|sp=us}}. The leaves of this large canopy tree are bipinnate.
References
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Further reading
- {{cite journal |last1=Tambat |first1=B. |last2=Rajanikanth |first2=G. |last3=Ravikanth |first3=G. |last4=Shaanker |first4=R. |last5=Ganeshaiah |first5=K. |last6=Kushalappa |first6=C. |title=Seedling mortality in two vulnerable tree species in the sacred groves of Western Ghats, South India |journal=Current Science |volume=88 |issue=3 |pages=350–2 |year=2005 |jstor=24110195}}
- {{cite journal |vauthors=Mohana VR, Rajeshb A, Athiperumalsamia T, Suthac S |title=Ethnomedicinal Plants of the Tirunelveli District, Tamil Nadu, India. |journal=Ethnobotanical Leaflets |volume=12 |pages=79–95 |year=2008 |format=PDF |url=http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1044&context=ebl}}
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