Memecylon talbotianum

Memeycelon Talbotianum is it? – efloraofindia | Google Groups : 12 posts by 5 authors. Attachments (6)
Memeycelon  sp.  evergreen tree seen scantily flowering at some places and profusely fruiting at some places at Kulgi, Anashi WLS, Karnataka, last week of April, ’10. The berries are green and than turning yellow indicative of Memycelon talbotianum. Kindly validate.

Excellent photos. I have seen this tree with flower in Matheran.

Would you please give more details such whether the leaves are petioled or sessile (not clear from the picture, out of focus, please take a picture of a single branch held parallel to your lens).  Please tell whether the flower/inflorescence is pedicellate or not (The flower picture is out of focus details are not available). Please give other details in the format we follow in this forum. I need basically the approximate size of the plant and leaves.
I too have a guess that this is M.talbotianum. But to validate we should get a more clear picture and details.

Unfortunately this is all the pics I have, I posted it only due to the yellow berries. The petiole was very short perhaps 1cm, flowers almost sessile. Both are small trees. This tree can be easily mistaken for M. umbellatum but for the yellow berries. If I am not mistaken only M. talbotianum has berry globose yellow.

M.umbellatum also do have yellow berries. This plant, as you said can be confused between M. umbellatum and M.talbottianum. M.talbottianum grows under thick evergreen canopy even well stratified thick forest. But M.umbellatum never grow in such condition. And M.talbotianum generally doesn’t grow in open conditions (some ecological notes from personal experience). But, here, if you are sure about the flowers were sessile this can be most probably M. talbotianum. Am still bit confused about the leaf shape. Better we don’t confirm it unless we get a picture of leafy branch in which you can zoom in single leaf and see the petiole and nerves and a lateral shot of inflorescence when you see the plant in bloom. Do make sure that you are not missing out characters and not just pictures of flower, leaf etc. You may please refer some pictorial guide such as Flowers of Sahyadri and Some Flowering Plants of the Western Ghats. May be … would be able to give us some tips on the same. 

… as per Dr. Almeida’s flora M. umbellatum has Berry globose, 6 mm, purplish black.

That is true in the case of ripened fruits, whereas unripened mature fruits of both the species are yellow then both turned to purplish black and while crushing you can see the dark purple or violet juice. People mention the color what they see at the time of collections. So my humble request is don’t depend upon colors.

Kindly examine and identify this Tree. 

Habit: Tree,Medium sized 

Habitat: Wild,Evergreen forest 

Sighting: Near Chikmagalur,Karnataka,about 1000 msl 

Date: 17-11-2015

 

Image by tspkumar…….Leaf Gall