Eurya acuminata

Eurya acuminata DC., Prodr. 1: 525 1824. (Syn: Diospyros serrata Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don; Eurya acuminata var. multiflora (DC.) Blume; Eurya acuminata var. suzukii (Yamamoto) H. Keng; Eurya angustifolia Wall. [Invalid]; Eurya angustifolia (Blume) Walp.; Eurya bifaria Wall. [Invalid]; Eurya chinensis Hook. fil. & Thomson ex Dyer (ambiguous synonym); Eurya hirsutula Miq.; Eurya japonica var. phyllanthoides (Blume) Dyer; Eurya lucida Wall. [Invalid]; Eurya membranacea Gardner; Eurya phyllanthoides Bl.; Eurya rostrata Blume; Eurya salicifolia Blume; Eurya serrata (Blume) Walp.; Eurya suzukii Yamam.; Eurya wrayi King; Geeria serrata Blume; Ternstroemia bifaria Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don) as per Catalogue of Life;

China (Yunnan), Taiwan, SE-Tibet, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Laos, Java, peninsular Malaysia (throughout), Thailand, Myanmar [Burma] (Bago, Chin, Mandalay, Mon, Rakhine, Taninthayi), India (Uttar Pradesh, Kumaon, Darjeeling, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Mizoram, Manipur, Tripura, Meghalaya), Sikkim, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sumatra, Vietnam, Singapore as per Catalogue of Life;

Common name: Tapering Leaf Eurya • Khasi: Dieng-pyrshittheh, Diengg-lapyrshit • Nepali: सानो झिंगाने Saano Jhingane

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Evergreen shrubs or trees, about 5-12 m tall. Bark dark brown, branches terete, branchlets and apical buds, densely pilose with grayish brown hairs. Leaves simple, alternate, about 3-9 x 1.3-3 cm across, lanceolate-elliptic to elliptic-oblong, base acute to cuneate, margins finely serrate or serrulate at two-third towards the apex, apex deeply acute to acuminate, shiny, coriaceous, chartaceous, green glabrous above, paler sparsely pubescent beneath, midrib slightly impressed above and prominent, sparsely hairy beneath, lateral veins about 13-20 on the either side of the midrib glabrous or sparsely hairy beneath, petiole pubescent, about 1-3 mm across, exstipulate. Inflorescence axillary, solitary or 2-5 in fascicles. Flowers unisexual, actinomorphic, white or pale yellow, about 4 mm across, pedicel pubescent, about 3-4 mm long, bracteoles 2, ovate-elliptic, apex acute, glabrous inside, pubescent outside, about 1.2 mm long, sepals 5, subequal, imbricate, ovate-orbicular, base free or slightly connate, pubescent outside, persistent, about 2-2.5 mm long, petals 5 rarely up to 8, imbricate, obovate-elliptic, base slightly connate, white, pale yellow base slightly connate, about 4.5-5 x 2-3 mm long. Male flowers: Stamens 15-20 in 1 series, unequal, base free or connate, sometimes adnate to petals, filaments filiform, anthers dorsifixed, 2 loculed, about 1mm long, apiculate, pistillode glabrous. Female flowers: Bracteoles, sepals and petals slightly smaller than male flowers, rarely staminodes present, ovary superior, globose, 3-5 locular, axile placentation, ovules many in each locule, style 3-5, free or connate, stigma 3-5 fid. Fruit berry, globose-ovoid, about 5 mm across, bluish black when ripe, usually indehiscent with persistent style. Seeds numerous, about 1 mm across, pitted, testa shiny, tubercled, reticulate, fleshy endosperm, dark brown.

(Attributions- Ganeshaiah, K. N., UAS, Bangalore, India. Kailash, B. R., ATREE, Bangalore, India. Royal Norwegian Embassy grants. Indian Bioresource Information Network (IBIN), Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi from India Biodiversity Portal)

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MS,Jan.,2023/15 Tree for id.: 2 images.
Location : Reiek, Mizoram

Eurya ??

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Maybe as per images at
https://efloraofindia.com/2013/12/06/eurya/ (though flowers appears to be fully open in comparison to comparative images).
What are the species (& keys) reported from your area?

And other members of Pentaphylaceae?

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What are the species (& keys) reported from your area?  And other members of Pentaphylaceae?

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I do not think it is Eurya.
Pl. post high res. images to check the details.

It looks belongs to Euphorbiaceae (Phyllanthaceae).

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3 images- 1 high res.

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I did not find anything close as per
https://efloraofindia.com/2011/02/10/phyllanthaceae/

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Eurya japonica Thunb. ??

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It’s a species of Eurya

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In that case, it will be
https://efloraofindia.com/2013/12/06/eurya-acuminata/

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Eurya for identification-6?: 3 high res. images.

Eurya acuminata DC.

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Had similarity…

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Yes it is E.acuminata.

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References:

Catalogue of Life  The Plant List  GRIN  Annotated checklist of Flowering plants of Nepal  Flora of China  India Biodiversity Portal  Biotik  PFAF  Forest Plants of Eastern India By Amal Bhusan Chaudhuri (1993- Description & Keys- Eurya acuminata, Eurya cavinervis, Eurya cerasifolia)  Useful Tropical plants  Flower of India   PFAF