| |
Microtropis wallichiana
|
| |
|
| |
Family:
CELASTRACEAE
|
| |
Citation: Microtropis wallichiana Wight ex Thw., Enum. Pl. Zeyl. 71. 1858; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 613. 1875; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 206(148). 1918; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 115. 1984; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 116. 1994; Sasidh. et al., Bot. Stud. Med. Pl. Kerala 30. 1996; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 107. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Shenduruny WLS 66. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 68. 1998; K. Ramam. in N.P. Singh et al., Fl. India 5: 131. 2000; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 66. 2002; K. Ramam. & P. Venu in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 715. 2005.
|
| |
Malayalam Name(s):
|
| |
Tamil name(s):
|
| |
English name(s):
|
| |
Description:
Trees, to 15 m high; branchlets yellowish, youngest darker. Leaves simple, opposite, decussate, estipulate; petiole 7-10 mm, slender, grooved above, glabrous; lamina 5-10.5 x 1.5-5 cm, ovate, elliptic, oblanceolate or elliptic-oblanceolate, glabrous, coriaceous; lateral nerves 5 or 6 pairs, pinnate, slender, prominent, intercostae reticulate, slender, prominent. Flowers bisexual, 2 mm across, pale yellow, sessile, in axillary fascicles; sepals 5, subreniform, margin fringed, imbricate; petals 5, obovate-oblong, obtuse, connate at base; stamens 5, inserted on the upper edge of the disc; disc annular, slightly lobed; ovary ovoid, seated on the disc, 2-celled, ovules 2 in each cell; style short; stigma minutely lobed. Fruit a capsule, 2-valved, 1-seeded, surrounded at the base by the persistent calyx, tapering at the base, round at apex with persistent style; seed erect, oblong.
|
| |
Habit:
Tree
|
| |
Flowering & Fruiting:
December-January
|
| |
District(s):
Palakkad, Kollam, Idukki, Thiruvananthapuram, Thrissur
|
| |
Medicinal:
|
| |
Habitat:
Evergreen forests
|
| |
Distribution:
Indo-Malesia
|
| |
Aquatic:
No
|
| |
Epiphyte(s):
No
|
| |
Saprophyte:
No
|
| |
Stem parasite:
No
|
| |
Root parasite:
No
|
| |
Flower colour(s):
Yellow
|
| |
Weed:
No
|
| |
Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
|
| |
Exotic:
No
|
| |
Garden:
No
|
| |
Edible:
No
|
| |
Vegetable:
No
|
| |
Endemic to:
|
| |
IUCN status:
|
| |
Altitude:
-1300
|
| |
Localities:
Peechi, Kallar, Rosemala, Manaloda, Varagaliar, Karimala, Pezha, Nelluyampathy forests, Ponmudi, Chemungi
|