Sloanea tomentosa (Benth.) Rehder & E. H. Wilson, in C.S.Sargent, Pl. Wilson. 2: 362 (1915) (syn: Echinocarpus tomentosus Benth. );
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Himalaya to China (S. Yunnan) and Indo-China: Assam, China South-Central, East Himalaya, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya as per POWO;
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Evergreen trees; 25-40 m tall; bark brown, exfoliating; branchlets densely rust-brown tomentose. Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; petiole ca. 2-10 cm, robust, terete, rust-colored tomentose; lamina ca. 15-30 x 7-18 cm, elliptic or ovate, acute or narrowed to subcordate or rounded at base, acuminate at apex, coarsely toothed, coriaceous; secondary nerves 9-12 pairs, prominent beneath, glabrous above, tomentose beneath. Flowers axillary, solitary, subtended by often bract-like leaves, ca. 1-2 cm across, pale white; pedicels ca. 2-4 cm long, tomentose, often elongating in fruits; sepals 5, ca. 7-10 mm long, ovate or oblong-ovate, pointed, tomentose outside; petals 5, ca. 8-10 mm long, creamy white, free or connate, oblong, concave, variously cut at apex, pubescent; stamens numerous; filaments ca. 3-4 mm long, pilose; anthers ca. 2-3.5 mm long, linear with ca. 1.5-2 mm long awns; disc broad, flattened or cushion-shaped, pitted; ovary globose, 4-loculed, sericeous; styles ca. 8-10 mm long, hairy at base. Capsules ca. 3.5-4 cm across, globose or ovoid, 4-5-valved; valves ca. 3-4 cm long, woody, densely covered with ca. 2-3 mm long plumose bristles; bristles dilated towards apex, deciduous. Seeds ca. 1.5 cm, arillate.
In moist deciduous and semievergreen forests between 1500 and 2000 m.
India: Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal (Darjeeling), Sikkim, Assam, Meghalaya and Manipur; Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Thailand and China (Yunnan).
(Attributions: Ayyappan. N & V. Kokilavani, French Institute of Pondicherry, Compiled from various sources listed in the reference as per India Biodiversity Portal)
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SK 3896 19 November 2023: 2 images.

Location:  Lamjung , Central Nepal 
Date: November 2023
Elevation 1660m.
Habit : Wild 
Images sent by Mr. Basudev Neupane
Sterculia??

Looks different from images at
https://efloraofindia.com/2011/03/31/sterculia/


Tried but failed.


Pl. try
https://efloraofindia.com/2011/02/28/eriolaena/


I think it is different. !


Pls check Sloanea tomentosa


Could it be some Sloanea sp?


Sloanea tomentosa (Benth.) Rehder & E.H.Wilson ??


Sloanea tomentosa


 

 

 


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References:
POWO  Catalogue of Life  WFO  BSI Flora of India  Flora of China  Flora of peninsular India India Flora Online  India Biodiversity Portal  Bhutan Biodiversity Portal  Wikipedia  iNaturalist
Sloanea tomentosa (Benth.) Rehder and E.H. Wilson (Elaeocarpaceae): A New Generic Record of a Rare Tree Species from Himachal Pradesh, India– January 2022, Indian Forester 147(12):1229