Homalium tomentosum

Homalium tomentosum (Vent.) Benth., J. Proc. Linn. Soc., Bot. 4: 34 1860. (syn: Blakwellia propinqua Wall.; Blakwellia spiralis Wall.; Blakwellia tomentosa Vent.; Homalium propinquum C.B.Clarke);

E. India to W. Malesia: Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Myanmar, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam as per POWO;
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Common name: Burma Lancewood, Moulmein lancewood
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Deciduous trees, about 20-40 m tall. Bark pale grayish brown, showing green epidermis beneath, with irregular flakes peeling, buttressed near the trunk base, branchlets and young twigs tomentose. Leaves simple, alternate, obovate-oblong, obovate-elliptic, about 10-25 x 5-13.5 cm across, base cuneate to rounded, margin shallow or distinctly crenate, apex deeply acute to shallow acuminate, lateral veins 8-12 on either side of the midrib, impressed above and prominent on midrib beneath, minutely tomentose to glabrescent above, minutely pubescent to wooly tomentose beneath, end in a gland beneath at each teeth of the margin, veinlets reticulate, petiole thick, about 3-8 mm long, stipules caducous. Inflorescence in shortly pedunculate, pendulous, subterminal and axillary racemes spikes or lax glomerules, ferruginous tomentose, about 10-30 cm long. Flowers greenish white, foetid or disagreeable odour, bisexual, epigynous, hypanthium funnel shaped, wooly tomentose, about 2 mm long in fruits, pedicels articulate in below, bracts ovate, caducous, sepals 5-6, linear oblong, margin ciliate, with densely hairy episepalous nectar gland opposite to every sepal, accrescent after anthesis, tomentose, about 1.25 mm long, petals 5-6, spathulate, almost same size as sepals, inserted in the rim of the calyx tube. Stamens before each petals, alternating with nectar glands, filaments about 2 mm long, anthers 2 loculed, globular, dorsifixed, extrorse, pollen tricolporate. Ovary semi-inferior, globose, unilocular, minutely appressed hairy inside, densely wooly tomentose outside, styles 3. Fruit indehiscent, subglobose-ovoid, about 2 mm long. Seed 1.
Mixed forests at low elevations.

(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, India as per India Biodiversity Portal)
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Medium-sized tree for Identification from Patiala, Punjab-December 2017::NS02 : 14 posts by 5 authors. Attachments (6)

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Never seen before 

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Pl. check /species/a—l/a/anacardiaceae

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Could not find a match as per comparative images at /species/a—l/a/anacardiaceae

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I think, Bridelia sp.

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Looks to me like Casearia graveolens (Salicaceae)

Please check for Bridelia ferruginea. Only a suggestion

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Thanks a lot …, for your valuable suggestion, yes it superficially resembles to what you suggested, bu flowers seem to differ..

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Unable to help you with this one.

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Possibly Celastraceae member.

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This is Homalium bhamoense (syn. H. tomentosum). Family Flacourtiaceae. See “Vascular
Flora of Punjab and Chandigarh” by M. Sharma. vol. 1:216.2021.In a separate e mail,
sending the brochure of the book.

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This is a species of Homalium

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Thanks, … Identified as Homalium bhamoense (syn. H. tomentosum).

I guess correct ID would be Homalium tomentosum (Vent.) Benth.   Homalium tomentosum (Vent.) Benth  Homalium tomentosum (Vent.) Benth.

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Going through POWO, it appears to be H. tomentosum (Vent.) Benth. rather than Homalium ceylanicum (Gardner) Benth. (syn: Homalium bhamoense Cubitt & W. W. Smith) as per POWO.

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Yes … and thank you for validation !

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References: POWO  Catalogue of Life  The Plant List Ver.1.1  IPNI  GBIF (High resolution specimens) Flora of peninsular India  Flowers of India  India Biodiversity Portal  Wikimedia Commons  tropicaltimber  Useful Tropical Plants