Litsea glutinosa (Lour.) C. Rob. var. brideliifolia (Hayata) Merr.
IUCN
NCBI
EOL Text
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
The following is a representative barcode sequence, the centroid of all available sequences for this species.
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 5
Specimens with Barcodes: 12
Species With Barcodes: 1
Litsea glutinosa is a rainforest tree in the laurel family, Lauraceae. Common names include soft bollygum, bolly beech, Bollywood, bollygum, brown bollygum, brown Bollywood, sycamore and brown beech.[1][3]
The powdered bark, known as jiggat, may be used as an adhesive paste in incense stick production.[4]
Distribution[edit]
This species is native to India, South China to Malaysia, Australia and the western Pacific islands.
It had been introduced to La Réunion, Mauritius and Mayotte where it is considered an invasive species.[5]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Litsea glutinosa (Lour.) C.B.Rob.". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government.
- ^ "Litsea glutinosa (Lour.) C.B.Rob.". The Plant List. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
- ^ Hyland, B. P. M.; Whiffin, T.; Zich, F. A. et al. (Dec 2010). "Factsheet – Litsea glutinosa". Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants. Edition 6.1, online version [RFK 6.1]. Cairns, Australia: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, through its Division of Plant Industry; the Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research; the Australian Tropical Herbarium, James Cook University. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
- ^ Jonathan Mitchell, Christopher Coles (2011). Markets and Rural Poverty: Upgrading in Value Chains. IDRC. p. 50. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
- ^ www.issg.org-Global Invasive Species Database
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"Notes: Western Ghats & Eastern Ghats, Dry Evergreen to Moist Deciduous Forests"