Large buttressed tree, 25- 45 m. Leaves broadly ovate, 9-26 x 9-20 cm, acuminate, base cordate or truncate, margins dentate, upper surface ± glabrous, pubescent beneath; petioles 4-10 cm. Male flower: in lax panicles 15-20 cm; floral cup including sepals c.1.5 mm diameter; stamens exserted, filaments 4 mm. Female flowers; spike pendulous, 15-20 cm, flowers in whorls of 3-8, sessile, ellipsoid, 4 mm, including sepals; syles exserted, c 1mm, stigmas obliquely club-shaped. Capsule ovoid, 5-6 x 4-4.5 mm, ribbed.
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Anictoclea grahamiana Nimmo |
| synonym | Tetrameles grahamiana (Nimmo) Wight |
| synonym | Tetrameles horsfieldii Steud. |
| synonym | Tetrameles rufinervis Miq. |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
Habit
Large deciduous tree
Family Description
Large deciduous trees. Leaves alternate, simple, exstipulate. Dioecious; flowers appearing before leaves, in axillary panicles or pendulous spikes, actinomorphic, unisexual. Sepals 4, oblong, connate at base; petals absent. Male flowers saucer shaped; stamens 4; pistillode minute. Female flowers: ovary inferior, 1-celled, obovoid or ellipsoid, with parietal placentas bearing numerous ovules; styles 3, bifid, inserted on margin of ovary. Fruit a capsule.
Genus Description
Large deciduous trees. Leaves alternate, simple, exstipulate. Dioecious; flowers appearing before leaves, in axillary panicles or pendulous spikes, actinomorphic, unisexual. Sepals 4, oblong, connate at base; petals absent. Male flowers saucer shaped; stamens 4; pistillode minute. Female flowers: ovary inferior, 1-celled, obovoid or ellipsoid, with parietal placentas bearing numerous ovules; styles 3, bifid, inserted on margin of ovary. Fruit a capsule.
Species description
Large buttressed tree, 25- 45 m. Leaves broadly ovate, 9-26 x 9-20 cm, acuminate, base cordate or truncate, margins dentate, upper surface ± glabrous, pubescent beneath; petioles 4-10 cm. Male flower: in lax panicles 15-20 cm; floral cup including sepals c.1.5 mm diameter; stamens exserted, filaments 4 mm. Female flowers; spike pendulous, 15-20 cm, flowers in whorls of 3-8, sessile, ellipsoid, 4 mm, including sepals; syles exserted, c 1mm, stigmas obliquely club-shaped. Capsule ovoid, 5-6 x 4-4.5 mm, ribbed.
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
Rank
Species
World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Tetrameles nudiflora R.Br.; The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1998. http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/32376. Accessed on 30 November 2017.
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📚 Natural History
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Habitat
Terrestrial
Native in subtropical forests
Terrestrial
World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Tetrameles nudiflora R.Br.; The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1998. http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/32376. Accessed on 30 November 2017.
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
Conservation Status
IUCN Red List Category
Lower Risk/Least Concern
LR/lc
World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Tetrameles nudiflora R.Br.; The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1998. http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/32376. Accessed on 30 November 2017.
| Attributions | World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Tetrameles nudiflora R.Br.; The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1998. http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/32376. Accessed on 30 November 2017. |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Uses and Management
Uses
One of the tallest tress species of the Himalayan foothills, very fast-growing and often cultivated for its valuable timber
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📚 Information Listing
References
Demography and Conservation > Conservation Status
- World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Tetrameles nudiflora R.Br.; The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1998. http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/32376. Accessed on 30 November 2017.
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Cucurbitales |
| Family | Tetramelaceae |
| Genus | Tetrameles |
| Species | Tetrameles nudiflora R. Br. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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