Hopea ponga is a species of flowering plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is a tree endemic to southwestern and southern India. It is also known as kambakam in Malayalam language.
The Western Ghats, also known as the Sahyadri, is a mountain range that stretches 1,600 km along the west coast of India. Covering an area of 160,000 km2, it traverses the Indian states of Gujarat, Ma
Hopea ponga
…grows up to 25 metres tall. It is widespread in low- and medium-elevation evergreen and semi-evergreen rainforests of the Malabar coastal plain and Western Ghats from 25 to 900 metres elevation. Two varieties are accepted…
Anamudi, the highest peak in the Western Ghats
The Western Ghats form a continuous chain of mountains.
Sholas, a unique type of stunted tropical montane forest found in the valleys