Understorey trees in evergreen forests ca. 1200 m.
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Mephitidia parvifolia (Wight) Walp. |
| synonym | Nonatelia parvifolia (Wight) Kuntze |
🗒 Common Names
| No Data |
📚 Overview
Summary
B. R. Ramesh, N. Ayyappan, Pierre Grard, Juliana Prosperi, S. Aravajy, Jean Pierre Pascal, The Biotik Team, French Institute of Pondicherry.
| Attributions | B. R. Ramesh, N. Ayyappan, Pierre Grard, Juliana Prosperi, S. Aravajy, Jean Pierre Pascal, The Biotik Team, French Institute of Pondicherry. |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Description
Shrubs; branchlets adpressed hairy. Leaves 7-9.5 x 3.5-5.5 cm, obovate, acute, cuspidate at apex, glabrous, coriaceous; nerves 5 pairs, prominent, nervules forked; margins recurved; petiole 1 cm long; stipule 7 x 4 mm, oblong, obtuse, villous within, margins fimbriate. Flowers 3-5 together, sessile; calyx teeth triangular, ciliate.
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 |
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 |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Leaf upper side
Flower insertion
Flowers on old branches
Leaf lower side
Fruit insertion
Habit
Large shrubs or small trees up to 5 m tall.
Trunk\bark
Bark brown, rough; blaze brown.
Branchlets
Branches horizontal; branchlets subterete to compressed, puberulous when young, later glabrous.
Leaves
Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; stipule small, triangular, interpetiolar, persistent; petiole 0.7 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous; lamina 6 x 2.5 cm, elliptic-oblong to obovate, apex abruptly acuminate with mucronate tip, base acute, margin entire, subcoriaceous, glabrous; midrib slightly raised or flat above; secondary nerves 3-4 pairs; tertiary nerves horizontally closely percurrent.
Flowers
Inflorescence cymes, axillary or from leafless branches; flowers sessile, white.
Fruit& seed
Drupe, globose, surmounted with persistent calyx lobes, dark purple when ripe; seeds 4.
B. R. Ramesh, N. Ayyappan, Pierre Grard, Juliana Prosperi, S. Aravajy, Jean Pierre Pascal, The Biotik Team, French Institute of Pondicherry.
| Attributions | B. R. Ramesh, N. Ayyappan, Pierre Grard, Juliana Prosperi, S. Aravajy, Jean Pierre Pascal, The Biotik Team, French Institute of Pondicherry. |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
No Data
📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Ecology
Understorey trees in evergreen forests ca. 1200 m.
B. R. Ramesh, N. Ayyappan, Pierre Grard, Juliana Prosperi, S. Aravajy, Jean Pierre Pascal, The Biotik Team, French Institute of Pondicherry.
| Attributions | B. R. Ramesh, N. Ayyappan, Pierre Grard, Juliana Prosperi, S. Aravajy, Jean Pierre Pascal, The Biotik Team, French Institute of Pondicherry. |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Miscellaneous Details
Notes: Western Ghats, Evergreen Forests. Endemic to Southern Western Ghats.
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 |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
No Data
📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Evergreen forests
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
Southern 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 |
Karnataka: Chikmagalur
Kerala: Idukki
Tamil Nadu: Coimbatore, Dindigul, Nilgiri, Theni, Tirunelveli
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 |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Endemic to southern Western Ghats- South Sahyadri.
B. R. Ramesh, N. Ayyappan, Pierre Grard, Juliana Prosperi, S. Aravajy, Jean Pierre Pascal, The Biotik Team, French Institute of Pondicherry.
| Attributions | B. R. Ramesh, N. Ayyappan, Pierre Grard, Juliana Prosperi, S. Aravajy, Jean Pierre Pascal, The Biotik Team, French Institute of Pondicherry. |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Endemic Distribution
Southern 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
- Lasianthus parvifolius Wight, Calcutta J. Nat. Hist. 6: 512. 1846; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 3: 186. 1880; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 647(456). 1921; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 179. 1998.
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. II, 1987; Gamble 1957
Information Listing > References
- Lasianthus parvifolius Wight, Calcutta J. Nat. Hist. 6: 512. 1846; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 3: 186. 1880; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 647(456). 1921; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 179. 1998.
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. II, 1987; Gamble 1957
No Data
🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Gentianales |
| Family | Rubiaceae |
| Genus | Lasianthus |
| Species | Lasianthus parvifolius Wight |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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