Flowering class: Dicot
Habit: Shrub
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Cotoneaster affinis DC. |
| synonym | Cotoneaster argenteus Klotz |
| synonym | Cotoneaster breviramea Rehd. & E.H. Wilson |
| synonym | Cotoneaster buxifolius f. vellaea Franch. |
| synonym | Cotoneaster buxifolius var. vellaeus (Franch.) Klotz |
| synonym | Cotoneaster hodjingensis Klotz |
| synonym | Cotoneaster hookeriana Hort. |
| synonym | Cotoneaster lanata Hort. ex Regel |
| synonym | Cotoneaster lidjiangensis Klotz |
| synonym | Cotoneaster marginata Hort. ex C. Koch |
| synonym | Cotoneaster microphylla var. vellaea Rehd. & E.H. Wilson |
| synonym | Cotoneaster microphyllus var. buxifolia Dippel |
| synonym | Cotoneaster repens Hort. |
| synonym | Cotoneaster wheeleri Hort. |
🗒 Common Names
| No Data |
📚 Overview
Description
Intricately branched shrub from a woody bole; branchlets rigid, downy. Leaves elliptic-ovate, 10 x 0.4 cm, coriaceous, base acute, margin recurved, apex acute, apiculate, glabrescent above, densely white, downy-tomentose below; petiole 2 mm. Inflorescence 2-6-flowered; bracts linear, 2 mm. Sepals 5, triangular, 2 mm, pubescent outside. Petals 5, pink, orbicular, 2 mm wide. Stamens c. 20; filaments subequal. Ovary inferior, 2-celled; ovules 2, basal; styles 2, slender, 1.2 mm. Drupe globose, 8 mm wide; seeds 4, ovoid, 4 mm.
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
No Data
📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Montane scrub jungle
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Description
Global Distribution
Endemic to Western Ghats
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: Idukki
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Endemic Distribution
Western Ghats
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
No Data
📚 Occurrence
No Data
📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
📚 Information Listing
References
- Cotoneaster buxifolius Wall. ex Wight, Ic. t. 992. 1845; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 387. 1878; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 446(316). 1919.
Information Listing > References
- Cotoneaster buxifolius Wall. ex Wight, Ic. t. 992. 1845; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 387. 1878; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 446(316). 1919.
No Data
🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Rosales |
| Family | Rosaceae |
| Genus | Cotoneaster |
| Species | Cotoneaster buxifolius Lindl. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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