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Hiptage benghalensis (L.) Kurz.
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Shrubs or lianas, 3-10 m or more; branchlets and inflorescences densely yellowish brown or silver-gray pubescent; branches glabrate, ferruginous-red or dark gray, with light- colored lenticels. Petiole 5-10 mm, canaliculate adaxially; leaf blade leathery, oblong, elliptic-oblong, or ovate-lanceolate, 9-18 × 3-7 cm, young leaves light red, pubescent, old leaves green, glabrous, base broadly cuneate or rounded, abaxially often with 2 glands, apex acuminate; lateral veins 6 or 7 pairs. Racemes axillary or terminal, 5-10 cm, inflorescence yellowish brown pubescent, glabrate; pedicels articulate at middle or distally; bracteoles subulate-lanceolate. Flowers very fragrant. Sepals broadly elliptic or ovate, 5-6 mm, apex rounded, densely yellow-brown pubescent; gland thick, large, oblong, ca. 1/2 adnate on pedicel. Petals white, base yellow maculate, or yellowish or pink, orbicular or broadly elliptic, 8-15 × 5-10 mm, pubescent, apex rounded, base clawed, margin fimbriate. Stamens differing in size, longest 8-12 mm, others 3-5 mm; anthers elliptic, 1-2 mm. Style ca. 12 mm, circinate. Samara body shortly sericeous, wings glabrous, abaxial wing elliptic or obovate-lanceolate, 3.5-5(-7) × 1-1.6 cm, apex entire or retuse, lateral wings lanceolate-oblong, 1.5-3 cm, base of wing with 1 triangular-crested appendage. Fl. Feb-Apr, fr. Apr-May.
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United States
Rounded National Status Rank: NNA - Not Applicable
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Stout woody climber. Young shoots sparsely pubescent and often with minute medifixed hairs. Leaves elliptic, 9-19 cm long, 4-9 cm broad, acute or acuminate, pale and sparsely pubescent beneath, shiny above; petiole up to 1 cm long. Axillary and terminal racemes up to 20 cm long, erect, softly tomentose. Bract 3-4.5 mm long, ovate—lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent, deciduous; bracteoles 2, c. 3 mm long, linear lanceolate, present halfway up the pedicel; pedicel 1.5-2.5 cm long. Sepals oblong, c. 8 mm long, up to 1 cm in fruit, appressed pubescent; the calycine gland reddish brown, c. 4 mm long, present between the 2 sepals and partly adnate to the pedicel. Petals alternating with the sepals, sub-orbicular to obovate, c. 1 cm long, clawed, creamish white, the posterior one the largest and with a yellow centre; with appressed pubescent hairs to the outside, glabrous to sparsely pubescent within. Stamens unequal; filament of longest stamen l-l.2 cm long, twice as long or longer than the shorter ones, slightly dilated and connate at the base; anthers ovate. Ovary pubescent. Style 1.3-l.5 cm long, slightly curved, lower part with appressed hairs. Mericarps l-3, pubescent; wings oblong lanceolate, the 2 laterals shorter, the median one 4-6 cm long. Seeds sub-globose.
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Rounded Global Status Rank: GNR - Not Yet Ranked
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"Notes: Western Ghats, Evergreen Forests"
300-1100 m
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"Notes: Western Ghats, Along river banks in Evergreen Forests and Semi-evergreen forestsalso in Sacred groves"
"Climbing shrubs; branches and shoots elongate. Leaves opposite, 6-8.5 x 2.7-3.7 cm, ovate-oblong, acute to acuminate at base, acuminate at apex, glabrous; petioles ca 7 mm long, glabrescent. Racemes 4-5 cm long, appressed-pubescent; pedicels 2.5-2.8 cm long, articulate at about 1 cm below calyx. Calyx lobes ovate, 3-3.5 x 1.5-2 mm; glands ovoid, ca 3 mm long. Petals 7-9 x 1-1.2 mm, white. Filaments 5-11 mm long; anthers ovoid, 1-1.5 mm long. Styles 1-1.5 cm long. Samaras light brown; median wing obovate, rounded at apex, 2-3.5 x 0.8-1.4 cm; lateral wings elliptic, 1.5-2 x 0.75 cm."
The bark is used in medicinal preparations.
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