You are here
Species
Pittosporum viridiflorum Sims.
IUCN
NCBI
EOL Text
Eastern Arc Mountains; Lake Malawi region; Lake Tanganyika region; Lake Victoria region; Madagascar; northern Tanzania; southern Africa; southern India; tropical Africa
License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ |
Rights holder/Author | Africa Tree Database |
Source | No source database. |
firewood; tools; utensils; household; ornamental; dye
License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ |
Rights holder/Author | Africa Tree Database |
Source | No source database. |
SE Xizang, W Yunnan [Bangladesh, Bhutan, N India, ?Myanmar, Nepal, N Pakistan, Sikkim].
License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
Rights holder/Author | eFloras.org Copyright © Missouri Botanical Garden |
Source | http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200010463 |
License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ |
Rights holder/Author | Wikipedia |
Source | http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pittosporum_viridiflorum&oldid=598563012 |
Himalaya (Punjab in Bhutan), Assam, S. Tibet, Burma.
License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
Rights holder/Author | eFloras.org Copyright © Missouri Botanical Garden |
Source | http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=110&taxon_id=200010463 |
Pittosporum napaulense var. rawalpindiense was described from Bhutan, N India, N Pakistan, and Sikkim, and was distinguished from var. napaulense by having leaf blades lanceolate, long acuminate at the apex, and capsules only 4-seeded. It seems to be only an extreme state of P. napaulense.
License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
Rights holder/Author | eFloras.org Copyright © Missouri Botanical Garden |
Source | http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200010463 |
1300-1500 m
License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
Rights holder/Author | eFloras.org Copyright © Missouri Botanical Garden |
Source | http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=110&taxon_id=200010463 |
Shrubs or small trees. Young branchlets brown, lenticellate. Leaves clustered at branchlet apex, biennial; petiole stout, 1–2 cm or more; leaf blade dark brown adaxially after drying, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 8–20 × 4–8 cm, thickly leathery, glabrous abaxially, lateral veins convex adaxially, base cuneate, margin flat, reflexed afer drying, apex acute or acuminate. Inflorescences terminal, paniculate or compoundly corymbose-paniculate, usually brown pubescent; pedicels 7–10 mm. Sepals slightly connate at base, ovate, 2–3 mm, glabrous or margin ciliate. Petals narrowly oblong, 5–6 mm. Stamens ca. 4 mm. Ovary ca. 2 mm, pubescent. Style ca. 1 mm, glabrous; stigmas capitate. Capsule globose, 6–7 mm in diam., dehiscing by 2 valves; pericarp orbicular, thin, horizontally striate adaxially; placentas at base of valves. Seeds 4–8, 2–3 mm in diam; funicle very short. Fl. Mar–May, fr. May–Nov.
License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
Rights holder/Author | eFloras.org Copyright © Missouri Botanical Garden |
Source | http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200010463 |
"Small trees; branchlets terete, lenticellate, pubescent. Leaves fascicled, 8-16 x 3-4 cm, cuneate, oblong-lanceolate, apex acute or slightly acuminate, glabrous; petiole to 2 cm. Corymbs terminal, much branched, to 11 cm long, pubescent; flowers white; sepals 1-1.25 mm, ovate, margin ciliate; petals 6 x 2 mm, oblong, basally united, recurved; stamens free, yellow, 4 mm long; ovary 1-5 celled, ovate, pubescent; style 1, stigma 2-5-lobed."
Habit: Shrub or Small Tree