Flowering class: Dicot
Habit: Tree
Agrostistachys borneensis Becc.
🗒 Synonyms
synonym | Agrostistachys coriacea Alston, nom. superfl. |
synonym | Agrostistachys intramarginalis Philcox |
synonym | Agrostistachys latifolia (Hook.f.) Pax & K.Hoffm. |
synonym | Agrostistachys leptostachya Pax & K.Hoffm. |
synonym | Agrostistachys longifolia (Wight) Trimen, nom. illeg. |
synonym | Agrostistachys longifolia var. latifolia Hook.f. |
synonym | Agrostistachys longifolia var. leptostachya (Pax & K.Hoffm.) Whitmore |
synonym | Agrostistachys meeboldii Pax & K.Hoffm. |
synonym | Sarcoclinium longifolium Wight |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
Habit: Tree
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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Dioecious evergreen trees to 15 m; bark 8-10 mm thick, blackish-grey mottled with white, smooth, brittle; blaze reddish-brown; branchlets stout, marked with the scales of petioles and stipules; exudation white, milky; young parts glabrous. Leaves simple, alternate, clustered at the tips of branchlets, stipulate; stipules lateral, short, broad, acute, cauducous; petiole 5-10 mm long, stout, glabrous; lamina 10-25 x 5-7.5 cm, oblanceolate or obovate-spathulate, base long attenuate, apex acuminate, margin entire, recurved, glabrous, coriaceous; lateral nerves 10-18 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae very obscure. Flowers unisexual, yellow; male flowers: in axillary lax spiciform racemes, much shorter than the leaves, few flowers per bract; bracts broadly ovate, ciliate; tepals 8-10, biseriate, outer tepals connate, cupular, splitting into 2-5 valvate segments; inner tepals petalloid, alternating with outer, ovate, obtuse fleshy, fimbriate, shorter than outer petals; disc glands 5, large, alternating with inner tepals; stamens 10, exserted; outer 5 alternating with disc; inner 5 shortly connate, around pistillode; anthers versatile, the cells pendulous from the thickened connective; pistillode 2-3 clefted; female flowers: in axillary lax spiciform racemes much shorter than the leaves, solitary in each bract; bracts broadly ovate, ciliate; tepals 8-10, biseriate, outer tepals ovate, stiff, spreading; inner tepals petalloid, longer than the outer tepals, alternating with outer, cauducous; entire; disc glands 5, partly connate; ovary superior, pubescent, 3-celled, ovules 1 in each cell, laterally pendulous; styles thick, short, spreading. Fruit a capsule 7-15 mm across, 3-lobed, cocci globose, reddish, crustaceous, smooth; seeds globose, smooth, shining.
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Miscellaneous Details
Notes: Moist Deciduous to Evergreen Forests
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Evergreen and semi-evergreen forests
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
References |
Description
Global Distribution
Indo-Malaya
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: Palakkad, Kottayam, Idukki, Kollam, Kannur, Thiruvananthapuram, Thrissur, Wayanad, Kozhikkode
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
Contributors | |
Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
References |
Karnataka: Belgaum, Chikmagalur, Hassan, N. Kanara, Shimoga, S. Kanara
Kerala: Idukki, Kannur, Kollam, Palakkad, Thiruvananthapuram, Thrissur
Tamil Nadu: Coimbatore, Namakkal, Nilgiri, Tirunelveli
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
Contributors | |
Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
References |
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📚 Occurrence
No Data
📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
📚 Information Listing
References
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. II, 1987
- Sarcoclinium longifolium Wight, Ic. tt. 1887, 1888. 1852.
- Agrostistachys meeboldii Pax & Hoffm. in Engl., Pflanzenr., Euphorb.-Chrozoph. 100. 1912; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1318(922). 1925; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 356. 1984; N.P.Balakr. & Chakrab., Fam. Euphorbiaceae India 158. 2007.
- Agrostistachys longifolia (Wight) Trimen, Syst. Cat. Fl. Pl. Ceylon 81. 1885, nom. illeg.; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 407. 1887.
- Agrostistachys borneensis Becc., Nelle For. Borneo 331. 1902; Manilal, Fl. Silent Valley 244. 1988; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 407. 1988; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 419. 1990; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 406. 1994; Sasidh. et al., Bot. Stud. Med. Pl. Kerala 22. 1996; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 391. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Shenduruny WLS 279. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 363. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 280. 2002; Mohanan & Sivad., Fl. Agasthyamala 592. 2002; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 718. 2009.
Information Listing > References
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. II, 1987
- Sarcoclinium longifolium Wight, Ic. tt. 1887, 1888. 1852.
- Agrostistachys meeboldii Pax & Hoffm. in Engl., Pflanzenr., Euphorb.-Chrozoph. 100. 1912; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1318(922). 1925; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 356. 1984; N.P.Balakr. & Chakrab., Fam. Euphorbiaceae India 158. 2007.
- Agrostistachys longifolia (Wight) Trimen, Syst. Cat. Fl. Pl. Ceylon 81. 1885, nom. illeg.; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 407. 1887.
- Agrostistachys borneensis Becc., Nelle For. Borneo 331. 1902; Manilal, Fl. Silent Valley 244. 1988; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 407. 1988; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 419. 1990; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 406. 1994; Sasidh. et al., Bot. Stud. Med. Pl. Kerala 22. 1996; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 391. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Shenduruny WLS 279. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 363. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 280. 2002; Mohanan & Sivad., Fl. Agasthyamala 592. 2002; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 718. 2009.
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🐾 Taxonomy
Root | Root |
Kingdom | Plantae |
Phylum | Tracheophyta |
Class | Equisetopsida C. Agardh |
Order | Malpighiales Juss. ex Bercht. & J. Presl |
Family | Euphorbiaceae |
Genus | Agrostistachys |
Species | Agrostistachys borneensis Becc. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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