Common understorey to subcanopy trees in evergreen forests, up to 1800 m.
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📚 Overview
Summary
B. R. Ramesh, N. Ayyappan, Pierre Grard, Juliana Prosperi, S. Aravajy, Jean Pierre Pascal, The Biotik Team, French Institute of Pondicherry.
| Attributions | B. R. Ramesh, N. Ayyappan, Pierre Grard, Juliana Prosperi, S. Aravajy, Jean Pierre Pascal, The Biotik Team, French Institute of Pondicherry. |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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Description
Fruit insertion
Inflorescence insertion
Petiole and leaf insertion
Leaf lower side
Leaf upper side
Habit
Trees up to 20 m tall.
Trunk & Bark
Bark light brown, lenticellate; blaze light orange.
Branches and Branchlets
Young branchlets subterete, glabrous.
Leaves
Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, clustered at twig ends; petiole 1.2-2 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous; lamina 7-11 x 3-3.5 cm, elliptic to narrow elliptic, apex narrowly acute to acuminate, base attenuate, glaucous beneath, subcoriaceous; midrib raised above; trinerved just above the base with ca. 4 pairs of secondary nerves; tertiary nerves distantly reticulo-percurrent; higher order nerves closely reticulate.
Inflorescence / Flower
Inflorescence umbels, axillary or lateral clusters.
Fruit and Seed
Berry, ellipsoid-oblong; fruiting perianth scarcely accrescent and crenate; seeds 1.
B. R. Ramesh, N. Ayyappan, Pierre Grard, Juliana Prosperi, S. Aravajy, Jean Pierre Pascal, The Biotik Team, French Institute of Pondicherry.
| Attributions | B. R. Ramesh, N. Ayyappan, Pierre Grard, Juliana Prosperi, S. Aravajy, Jean Pierre Pascal, The Biotik Team, French Institute of Pondicherry. |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Ecology
Common understorey to subcanopy trees in evergreen forests, up to 1800 m.
B. R. Ramesh, N. Ayyappan, Pierre Grard, Juliana Prosperi, S. Aravajy, Jean Pierre Pascal, The Biotik Team, French Institute of Pondicherry.
| Attributions | B. R. Ramesh, N. Ayyappan, Pierre Grard, Juliana Prosperi, S. Aravajy, Jean Pierre Pascal, The Biotik Team, French Institute of Pondicherry. |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
Description
Indomalaysia; in the Western Ghats- South, Central and south Maharashtra Sahyadris.
B. R. Ramesh, N. Ayyappan, Pierre Grard, Juliana Prosperi, S. Aravajy, Jean Pierre Pascal, The Biotik Team, French Institute of Pondicherry.
| Attributions | B. R. Ramesh, N. Ayyappan, Pierre Grard, Juliana Prosperi, S. Aravajy, Jean Pierre Pascal, The Biotik Team, French Institute of Pondicherry. |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
📚 Information Listing
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Laurales |
| Family | Lauraceae |
| Genus | Neolitsea |
| Species | Neolitsea cassia (L.) Kosterm. |
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