Category: Interesting Facts

Otonephelium stipulaceum (Bedd.) Radlk.

Systematic Classification: Common Name: Ellooti, Malamthodali General Information: Trees up to 28 m tall. Bark brown, smooth to irregularly flaky when mature. Young branchlets angular, slightly pubescent, later glabrous. Leaves compound, usually paripinnate, sometime imparipinnate, to 40 cm long, alternate, spiral; rachis angular, pulvinate, glabrous; petiolule 0.3-0.6 cm long, stout, puberulous when young; leaflets 3-6 […]

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Pterospermum rubiginosum Heyne ex Wt. & Arn.

Systematic Classification: Common Name: Ellooti, Malamthodali General Information: Large trees up to 28 m tall.Bark brown, large flaky or exfoliating; blaze outer bark red and inner cream.Young branchlets slender, terete, tawny pubescent and stellate hairy.Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; stipules lateral, with two linear subulate appendages, densely stellate tomentose, caducous; petiole ca. 0.1 cm long, terete, […]

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Pittosporum neelgherrense Wt. & Arn.

Systematic Classification: Common Name: Analivegam General Information: Small trees up to 5 m tall. Branchlets slender, terete, glabrous, lenticellate. Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, usually crowded at apex; petiole 0.5-1.2 cm long, canaliculate, glabrous; lamina 2.5-10 x 1.3-5 cm, elliptic or obovate, apex acute or subacuminate, sometimes obtuse, base acute, margin entire to crenulate; chartaceous or […]

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Humboldtia brunonis Wall.

Systematic Classification: Common Name: Browns Humboldtia General Information: Small trees, up to 10 m tall.Branchlets terete, glabrous; young branchlets angular and hairy.Leaves compound, paripinnate, alternate, distichous, pulvinate; stipules in pairs, lanceolate with broad reniform foliaceous appendage at base; rachis short ca. 6 cm long, angular, obscurely winged; leaflets 2 pairs, subsessile, lower most pair just […]

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