Horsfieldia iryaghedhi

Horsfieldia iryaghedhi
Conservation status
Critically Endangered  (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Magnoliids
Order:	Magnoliales
Family:	Myristicaceae
Genus:	Horsfieldia
Species:	H. iryaghedhi
Binomial name
Horsfieldia iryaghedhi (Gaertn.) Warb.
Synonyms
Horsfieldia odorata Willd. (type for Horsfieldia)[1][2]

Horsfieldia iryaghedhi is a species of plant in the Myristicaceae family. It is endemic to Sri Lanka.

Culture

Known as "ruk - රුක්" in Sinhala.

In Theravada Buddhism, this plant is said to have used as the tree for achieved enlightenment, or Bodhi by sixteenth Lord Buddha called "Piyadassi - පියදස්සි". The plant is known as කුකුධ (Kukudha) in Sanskrit.

Sources

1. "Horsfieldia odorata Willd.". The Plant List; Version 1. (published on the internet). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden. 2010. Retrieved June 24, 2012. Horsfieldia odorata Willd. is a synonym of Horsfieldia iryaghedhi (Gaertn.) Warb.
2. Horsfieldia odorata (the type species for the genus Horsfieldia) was first described and published in Species Plantarum. Editio quarta 4(2): 872. 1806. It was later made into a synonym of H. iryaghedhi, but remains the type of record for Horsfieldia. "Name - !Horsfieldia Willd.". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved June 24, 2012.

• World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Horsfieldia iryaghedhi. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 21 August 2007.