Julostylis angustifolia (Arn.) Thw., Enum. Pl. Zeyl.: 30 (1858) (syn: Kydia angustifolia Arn.);
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SW. India, Sri Lanka as per POWO;
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Trees, to 20 m, bark yellowish-brown, smooth; branches drooping, slender, terete; young branches, peduncle and pedicel stellately rusty tomentose. Leaves simple, alternate, distichous, stipulate; stipules 4 mm long, linear, free, lateral, minutely pubescent, cauducous; petiole 5-12 mm long, slender, stellately tomentose; lamina 5-19 x 1-7 cm, lanceolate or oblong-acuminate, base obtuse, round or truncate, apex acute or acuminate, margin entire, sparsely stellate-tomentose above and densely stellate-tomentose beneath, coriaceous; 3-nerved at base, palmate, prominent; with a linear gland at the base of the midrib beneath, lateral nerves 4-5 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae scalariform, prominent. Flowers bisexual, yellow, in lax axillary and terminal pendulous panicles; pedicel 3-7 mm long, slender, stellate-tomentose; involucellar bracts 4, 8.5 × 6 mm, connate at base, broadly ovate, acute or subobtuse at apex, densely stellate-tomentose outside and sericeous inside; calyx 5-lobed, lobes 6 x 3 mm, much smaller than the involucellar bracts, accrescent, densely pubescent with minute stellate hairs; corolla yellowish with reddish center; petals 5, oblong or obovate, connate at base, minutely stellate-hairy externally; staminal tube 3.5 mm long, 5-toothed at apex, glabrous, staminiferous towards middle; anthers 10, reniform; filaments slender, 2.5 mm long, sparsely pubescent; ovary superior, ovoid, stellate-hairy, 2-3 locular, ovules 1-2 per locule; style 7 mm long, 2(-3) branched towards apices; stigma, peltate, minutely rugose. Fruit a capsule, 8 mm across, indehiscent, compressed-subglobose with a short beak at apex, completely enclosed within accrescent calyx, densely pubescent with minute stellate and simple hairs; seeds reniform, concentrically striated, brownish-black.
Flowering and fruiting: October-January
Moist deciduous and semi-evergreen forests
(Attributions: Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi as per India Biodiversity Portal)
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511 ID wild tree: 21 high res. images.
Please ID wild tree,
Location: bloomed near Vannappuram Thodupuzha Idukki Kerala INDIA
Altitude: 1500fsl
Flower date: 04DEC2023, 05.10pm
Habitat: wild moisture evergreen misty sloppy canopied alpine
Plant habit: tree overgrown, erect branches, rusty branchlets, hard woody cylindrical stem 50 inches base circumference, rough puffed lite brown bark
Height: 15 meters
Leaves: alternate elliptic acute simple rough, size upto: 12×5cm, rusty petioles
Flower: axillary/terminal panicle inflorescence, diameter:20mm, purplish, fragrant, rusty peduncle
Fruit:
Seed:
Camera: CANON EOS1500D +FL10x
My first impression is Malvaceae. Probably Julostylis angustifolia (Arn.) Thwaites.
Yes, it is very close to J. angustifolia, thank you very much for ID my plant. I think it may be J. polyandra which is reported from Western Ghats
As per the attached key, your photographs correspond with Julostylis angustifolia (Arn.) Thwaites. It is the only species of Julostylis that has lanceolate leaves. It was reported from Idukki district in 1985.
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Yes, it is Julostylis angustifolia. Thank you very much for sharing detailed information and identification of my plant with comparison chart of all Julostylis sps.
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References:
POWO Catalogue of Life GBIF (High resolution specimens) Flora of Sri Lanka Flora of peninsular India India Biodiversity Portal IBIS Flora
