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Species
Litsea glutinosa (Lour.) C. Rob. var. brideliifolia (Hayata) Merr.
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Global Distribution
Indo-Malesia and China
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: Kasaragode, Kannur, Thiruvananthapuram, Malappuram, Kozhikkode, Palakkad
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Himalaya (Kashmir to Bhutan), Assam, S. India, Ceylon, Burma, China, Indo-China, Malaysia.
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150-900 m
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"Dioecious trees, to 10 m high, bark 2-2.5 cm thick, surface brown; branchlets rather slender, stiff, minutely tomentellous towards apex. Leaves simple, pilose when young; lamina 6-23.5 x 3-10 cm, elliptic, elliptic-oblong or obovate, base acute, apex acute, obtuse or acuminate, margin entire, glabrous above, grey-pubescent beneath, chartaceous; lateral nerves 7-12 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae reticulate. Flowers unisexual, 5-6 mm across, yellow, in many flowered umbels; peduncles upto 5 mm long, slender, densely pilose; perianth short; tube silky, funnel shaped, segments 0; stamens 9-12, all fertile, in 4 rows; filaments to 2 mm, very hairy; fourth series glandular, glands sessile, orbicular; ovary half inferior, 1 mm long; style 1.5 mm, stigma dilated, irregularly lobed; staminodes 9-12, to 2.5 mm. Fruit a berry, 5-6 mm across, depressed, globose, purple, on flat disc."
Habit: Tree
Deciduous and semi-evergreen forests
Flowering and fruiting: April-May
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 5
Specimens with Barcodes: 12
Species With Barcodes: 1