Flowering class: Dicot
Habit: Tree
Distribution notes: Exotic
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📚 Overview
Description
Trees to 30 m high, bark pale brown, furrowed; blaze red, branchlets pubescent. Leaves opposite or subopposite, deccussate; stipules subulate, cauducous; petiole 10-20 mm long, slender, glabrous; lamina 8.5-12 x 2.5-4, ovate-lanceolate, oblong-ovate or lanceolate, base obliquely obtuse, apex acuminate, margin serrate, glabrous, chartaceous; lateral nerves 7-10 pairs, parallel, slender, prominent, intercostae reticulate. Flowers bisexual, greenish-yellow, 6 mm across; pedicel 0.5 cm; calyx tube obconic; lobes 5, deltoid; petals 5, green, orbicular, concave; disc 10-lobed; stamens 5, enclosed by the petals; ovary superior, ovoid, 1-celled, ovule-1, erect; style stout; stigma 5-furrowed. Fruit a drupe, to 3 x 1.5 cm, oblong-obovoid, orange, muricate; seed one.
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 |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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Habit: Shrub
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Miscellaneous Details
Notes: Western Ghats & Eastern Ghats, Cultivated, Native of Africa
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Grown as shade tree in coffee plantation
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 |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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Description
Global Distribution
Native of Africa
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: Pathanamthitta, Idukki, Wayanad, Kannur, Palakkad, Kollam, Kozhikkode
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 |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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Kerala: Idukki, Kannur, Palakkad, Pathanamthitta, Wynad
Tamil Nadu: Dindigul, Salem
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
📚 Information Listing
References
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. I, 1983, Biodiversity Documentation for Kerala Part 6: Flowering Plants, N. Sasidharan, 2004
- Maesopsis eminii Engl., Pflanzenw. Ost-Afrikas, C. 255. 1895; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 67. 2002; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 130. 2005; P.V. Sreekumar & A.N. Henry in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 736. 2005; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 230. 2009.
Information Listing > References
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. I, 1983, Biodiversity Documentation for Kerala Part 6: Flowering Plants, N. Sasidharan, 2004
- Maesopsis eminii Engl., Pflanzenw. Ost-Afrikas, C. 255. 1895; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 67. 2002; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 130. 2005; P.V. Sreekumar & A.N. Henry in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 736. 2005; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 230. 2009.
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Rosales |
| Family | Rhamnaceae |
| Genus | Maesopsis |
| Species | Maesopsis eminii |
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