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Microtropis ramiflora Wight, Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient. 3: t. 977 1845. (Syn: Paracelastrus ramiflorus (Wight) F.N.Williams);
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Evergreen trees, to 25 m high; bark greenish-yellow, smooth with bluish-green blotches, blaze yellow turning yellowish-brown; branchlets black purple, rough. Leaves simple, opposite, decussate, estipulate; petiole 3-10 mm long, stout, glabrous; lamina 5-13 x 2.5-6.5 cm, elliptic, elliptic-ovate or obovate, base round or subcordate, apex rounded or slightly emarginate, margin revolute, cucullate, coriaceous, glabrous, slightly rugose above; lateral nerves 5-7 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers bisexual, yellowish, sessile, 6-10 in axillary condensed clusters; sepals 5, ovate to suborbicular, unequal, margin laciniate, imbricate; petals 5, fleshy, joined at the base with disc; disc annular; stamens 5, inserted on the disc; filaments subulate, basally connate; ovary conical, seated on the disc, 2-3-celled, ovules 2 in each cell; style short, stigma 2-3 lobed. Fruit a capsule, 2 x 0.8 cm, ellipsoid, woody, apiculate, grey to rusty, 2-valved, surrounded at the base by persistent calyx; seed one, 4 x 6 mm, oblong, stipitate, erect. Flowering and fruiting: March-June
Shola forests
Peninsular India and Sri Lanka
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Nilgiris :: Celastraceae tree for identification :: 291213MK003 : Attachments (7). 3 posts by 2 authors. Please help me in identifying this small tree for identification. Can this be Microtropis ramiflora of Celastraceae?
Height: 5-7 m
Leaf: leathery; glabrous, 12 cm long
Fruit: hard, 2.5 cm long; aril red on mature
Date: 12 Dec 2013
Place: Doddabetta RF, Nilgiris, TN
Alt.: 2450 m asl I too think it is Microtropis ramiflora
Shola Species pls idenitify ID Niju2803201501 : 6 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (2)
From Sispara, Silent valley NP, Kerala This is Microtropis sp. Celasteraceae. may we know the size of the fruits and the leaves. fruits mostly is what I am interested in Thanks, to …
Microtropis latifolia Wt. ex Lawson Shola speciecs please identify NIJU/04/15/01 : 5 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (3) This tree found in high altitude region of Silent valley national park, sispara, Kerala
It is Microtopis sp. Celasteraceae
Pl. check From Biotik: Microtropis ramiflora Wight of Celastraceae Microtropis ramiflora Wight perhaps. Key to Indian species. Does not look like any from the list of Flora of Peninsular India matches. I think it matches with Microtropis ramiflora Wight as per Biotik and GBIF– specimen 1, specimen 2.
. References: The Plant List Ver. 1.1 (Unresolved) India Biodiversity Portal Biotik JSTOR | Global Plants: Type? of Microtropis ramiflora Wight [family … Plant illustrations |
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