Alchornea tiliifolia (Benth.) Müll.Arg., Linnaea 34: 168 1865. (syn: Alchornea villosa (Benth.) Müll.Arg.; Alchornea villosa var. lanceolata Müll.Arg.; Alchornea villosa var. latisepala Hook.f.; Alchornea zollingeri Hassk.; Aparisthmium sumatranum Rchb. & Zoll.; Bleekeria zollingeri (Hassk.) Miq.; Croton chiamala Wall. [Invalid]; Stipellaria tiliifolia Benth.; Stipellaria villosa Benth.; Stipellaria zollingeri Miq.);
India: Subtropical evergreen forests at 500 – 1500 m altitudes. West Bengal, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya and Andaman & Nicobar Islands; Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, China, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Sumatra, Java and Borneo as per BSI Flora of India;
Sikkim to Indo-China and W. Malesia as per WCSP;
Assam; Bangladesh; Borneo; East Himalaya; Jawa; Laos; Malaya; Myanmar; Nicobar
Is.; Sumatera; Thailand; Vietnam as per Catalogue of Life; Shrub or small tree, branchlets. Leaves ovate, 10-20*4-12cm, finely acuminate, base rounded or broadly cuneate, margins serrulate, pubescent on veins beneath, 3-veined at base with discoid glands between veins, petioles 5-15cm, bearing 2 subulate stipules 1.5-2mm, at apex stipules subulate 4-6mm. Dioceious ?; male spikes 2-4 cluatered in axils of fallen leaves, 3-10cm, flowes clustered mjinute subsessile, sepals 1mm, female racemes terminal, flowers borne singly, sepals 4-5mm. Capsules ellipsoid, 12-16mm, warted. May-July
Subtropical forests
(Attributions- Grierson A.J.C &Long D.G. Flora of Bhutan. Volume 1 Part 3. Published by RBGE 1987 from Bhutan Biodiversity Portal)
Alchornea tiliifolia (Euphorbiaceae) : 4 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (2) Alchornea tiliifolia (Benth.) Müll.Arg. in Linnaea 34: 168. 1865. Stipellaria tiliifolia Benth. in Hooker’s J. Bot., Kew Gard. Misc. 6: 4. 1854 (as tiliaefolia).
Location: Nagaland.
Photographer: Dr. Santanu Dey
Habit: Shrubs or trees, 1 – 5 m high.
Habitat: Tropical evergreen forests between 500-1500 m altitudes.
Distribution: India (West Bengal, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland and Andaman & Nicobar Islands), Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, China, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Sumatra, Java and Borneo.
Thank you … for the post which is new to me. Fruit looks like Globba at a first glance.
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