Premna bracteata Wall. ex C.B.Clarke, Fl. Brit. India 4: 572 1885. (syn: Gumira bracteata (Wall. ex C.B.Clarke) Kuntze; Premna racemosa Gamble; Surfacea bracteata (Wall. ex C.B.Clarke) Moldenke);
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Nepal to China (S. Yunnan): Assam, Bangladesh, China South-Central, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Tibet as per POWO;
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Wall. Cat. 1772 ; leaves short-petioled elliptic or obovate acuminate at both ends, spikes panicled and calyx densely puberulous. P. racemosa, Gamble Darjeeling List, 61 ?, not of Wall. Labiata ? Griff. Itin. Notes 199, n. 1138.
SUBTROPICAL SIKKIM, alt. 2-3000 ft. ; J. D. H, &c. BHOTAN ; Griffith (Kew Distrib, n. 6022). KHASIA MTS., alt.. 4000 ft. ; Wallich, Griffith, H. f. & T.
A tree, 40 ft. ; innovations densely cinereous pubescent. Leaves 9 by 3.3/4 in., subentire, mature, glabrate, nerves 8 pair ; petiole 1/4 in., somewhat winged, or 0. Panicles 7 by 4 in. ; bracts 1/5 in., broadly lanceolate, acute, or 0 ; cymes mostly in distant capitate whorls on the panicle branches. Calyx 1/20 in. ; lips entire shallow, or sometimes one minutely 2-toothed, the other still more obscurely 3-toothed. Corolla 1/8 in., white, as of P. interrupta but smaller, hardly hairy in the throat. Drupe not seen. Cymes in compound corymbs.
(Attributions- IBIS Flora (FBI))
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MS,Jan.,2021/14 Terminalia sp. ? for id.
3 images.
Location : Reiek tlang
Is it not the same as posted earlier- T.interrupta?
I think different.
I think this is Premna bracteata as per comparative image illustration and GBIF– specimen 1 and specimen 2
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Date : 14-05-2016
Habit : Medium sized tree
Habitat : Wild
Some Terminalia species.
looks like Terminalia chebula
I agree with … but images in fruiting are required for determining the species with certainty.
I think this is Premna bracteata as per comparative image illustration and GBIF– specimen 1 and specimen 2
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References: POWO Catalogue of Life The Plant List Ver.1.1 WCSP comparative image illustration GBIF– specimen 1 and specimen 2 (High resolution specimens) Flora of China Annotated checklist of Flowering plants of Nepal IIIM (Specimen) IBIS Flora (FBI)
