Monoon shendurunii (Basha & Sasidh.) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders, Taxon 61: 1033 (2012) (syn: Polyalthia shendurunii Basha & Sasidh.)?;
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India (Kerala) as per POWO;
Trees to 15 m tall; bole with warty tubercles; bark smooth, brownish-black. Leaves simple, alternate distichous, estipulate; petiole 5-10 mm long, stout, pubescent; lamina 15-26 x 6-8.5 cm, elliptic, obovate, oblong or elliptic-lanceolate; base rounded or truncate; apex acuminate, acumen to 3 cm long, margin entire, glabrous, midrib impressed and channelled above, lateral veins 10-14 pairs, pinnate, raised beneath; intercostae subscalariform. Flowers bisexual, greenish to yellow, on twigs solitary and or up to 10 in fascicles on tubercles on the trunk; pedicels 3-5 cm long and 2-3 mm thick, tomentose; bract 3-4 x 2.5-3 mm towards the lower half of the pedicel, ovate-acute, tomentose; sepals 3, 1.5-2 x 1-1.3 cm, deltoid-ovate, acuminate, reflexed, connate at base, persistent; petals 6 (3+3) subequal; outer slightly smaller, oblong, acute or acuminate, coriaceous, minutely rugose and appressed-tomentose on both sides, greenish-yellow to yellow, inner 8-9 x 1.5-2 cm; stamens numerous, closely arranged, 3 mm long; anthers and connectives hirsute, more on the ventral surface, appendage glabrous, anther cells concealed below the overlapping connectives; carpels many, each 2.5 mm long; ovule solitary, basal; style indistinct; stigma orbicular, depressed at middle, margins shortly lobed, glabrous. Fruit aggregate of berries, pedicel 4-5 mm across; fruitlets to 7, 3 x 2.5 cm, oblong-ovoid, glabrous; stalk ca.1.8 cm long; seed oblong, 2.8 x 1.8 cm.
Flowering and fruiting: January-May
Evergreen forests
(Attributions: Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi from India Biodiversity Portal)
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References:
POWO The Plant List Ver.1.1 Flora of peninsular India India Biodiversity Portal IBIS Flora (Flora of British India) Biotik Kerala plants Wikipedia