Litsea species

     PLANT FOR ID 175 SMP NOV 2009 – efloraofindia | Google Groups : 6 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (1) I can give very little info. about this big tree seen in Mahabaleshwar Nov 2009. Seems to be a Litsea sp.   ls ID the plant taken at Shibpur Botanical Garden , Howrah , […]

Read More

Litsea stocksii

Litsea stocksii Hook.f.,  Fl. Brit. India 5: 176 1886. (syn: Litsea josephii S. M. Almeida as per efi thread);   Medium trees; branchlets glabrous. Leaves to 15 x 5 cm, elliptic to obovate, acute, reddish beneath, glabrous; lateral nerves 7-9 pairs; petiole 1 cm long. Racemes 6 cm long. Umbellules few, peduncled; bracts orbicular, puberulus. Flowers […]

Read More

Litsea glutinosa

Litsea glutinosa (Lour.) C.B. Robinson, Philipp. J. Sci. 6(5): 321 321 1911 (Syn: Litsea chinensis Lam.) as per Litsea glutinosa – Species Information, Factsheet – Litsea glutinosa – Trin, LITSEA CHINENSIS LAM – ijrpc (2012- pdf), Puso-puso / Litsea glutinosa / Indian laurel / Chan gao mu jiang zi etc. . Litsea glutinosa (Lour.) C.B.Rob., Philipp. J. Sci., […]

Read More

Litsea floribunda

Litsea floribunda (Bl.) Gamble, Gamble, Fl. Madras 2: 1238. 1993; . Dioecious trees, to 15 high, bark 8-10 mm thick, light brown, smooth, brittle, lenticellate; lenticels horizontal; blaze dull yellow; branchlets brown to black pubescent. Leaves simple, alternate, estipulate; petiole 10-15 mm long, stout, pubescent; lamina 7.5-28 x 3.7-10.5 cm, elliptic, obovate-oblong, elliptic-oblong or ovate-oblong, […]

Read More

Litsea deccanensis

Litsea deccanensis Gamble, Fl. Madras. 1235. (Syn: Litsea tomentosa Heyne ex Wall.; Tetranthera tomentosa Roxb. ex Wall. ex Wight); . LIT-see-a — Chinese litse or Ii, meaning small, little … Dave’s Botanary day-kahn-NEN-sis — of or from Deccan peninsula, India ak-tin-oh-DAF-nee — Greek: aktinos (ray) and daphne, who was transformed into a Laurel to escape […]

Read More

Litsea monopetala

Litsea monopetala (Roxb.) Pers., Syn. Pl. 2: 4 4 1807. (Syn: Litsea apetala Pers.; Litsea hexantha Siebold ex Bl.; Litsea polyantha Juss.; Malapoenna monopetala (Roxb. ex Baker) Kuntze; Tetranthera alnoides Miq.; Tetranthera fruticosa Buch.-Ham. ex Meisn.; Tetranthera hexantha Sieber ex Meisn.; Tetranthera hirana Buch.-Ham. ex Wall.; Tetranthera macrophylla Wall.; Tetranthera monopetala Roxb.; Tetranthera quadriflora Roxb.; […]

Read More