eFlora of India

Category: Drypetes

  • Drypetes venusta

    Drypetes venusta (Wight) Pax & K.Hoffm., H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr., IV, 147, XV: 268 (1922) (syn: Astylis venusta Wight ; Drypetes elata (Bedd.) Pax & K.Hoffm.; Hemicyclia elata Bedd. ; Hemicyclia venusta (Wight) Thwaites);
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    SW. India as per POWO;
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    Deciduous trees, to 30 m high, bole fluted, bark greyish-white, smooth, thin; branchlets 1-5 mm thick, slender, drooping, glabrous. Leaves simple, alternate; stipules small, lateral, caducous; petiole 3-20 mm long, slender, grooved above, glabrous; lamina 6-15 x 2-6.4 cm, elliptic, elliptic-lanceolate or elliptic-oblong, base oblique, acute, apex obtusely acute, obtusely acuminate or acute, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; lateral nerves 7-15 pairs, pinnate, slender, prominent, intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers unisexual, greenish-yellow, 5-8 mm across; male flowers: 3-6 in axillary clusters; pedicel 5-8 mm long, minutely hispid; tepals 4, 4 x 2 mm, oblong, obtuse, hispid outside; stamens 6-10; filaments 3 mm long, free, glabrous; anthers oblong; disc lobulate, villous; female flowers: solitary or in pairs, axillary; pedicel minutely hispid; tepals 4, 4 x 2 mm, oblong, obtuse, hispid outside; ovary ovoid, 1-celled; stigma mushroom shaped; ovules 2, pendulous. Fruit a drupe, obovoid, 1.5-2.5 cm long, greenish-yellow, drooping; seed solitary, covered with pulpy mucilage.
    Flowering and fruiting: November-July
    Evergreen and semi-evergreen forests
    Southern Western Ghats
    (Attributions: Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi as per India Biodiversity Portal)
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    524 ID wild tree: 18 high res. images.
    Please ID wild tree tied up with parasitic Ficus sps.,
    Location: bloomed near Vannappuram Thodupuzha Idukki Kerala INDIA

    Altitude: 1500fsl
    Flower date: 15JAN2024, 05.40pm
    Habitat: wild moisture evergreen misty sloppy canopied alpine 
    Plant habit: big tree, erect branches, branchlets, hard woody cylindrical stem 80 inches base circumference, rough yellow bark
    Height: 25 meters
    Leaves: alternate elliptic acute simple glossy glossy flexible, size upto: 10×5cm
    Flower: axillary buds, 04 petals, diameter:10mm, yellow, good fragrance 
    Fruit:
    Seed:
    Camera: CANON EOS1500D +FL10x

    Drypetes sp. [Putranjivaceae]. Male tree. Probably D. venusta (Wight) Pax & K.Hoffm. [syn. D. elata (Bedd.) Pax & K.Hoffm.].

    Yes, it is Drypetes venusta, dear …, thank you very much for ID my tree

    Thanks, Viplav ji, for the id.
    Yes appears close to images of Drypetes venusta as per
    https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/11096
    https://powo.science.kew.org/names:345214-1
    https://www.biotik.org/india/drypvenu_en.html

    Drypetes venusta, a common element in evergreen foests between 500 – 1500 m asl.

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    Drypetes venusta ID#524: 7 high res. images.
    Sharing images of female flower from the same location
    Flower date: 03FEB2024, 01.15pm
    Flower size: 01cm diameter, greenish yellow, fragrant


    Sharing more images
    Fruit: berry green into lite green to black obovoid glabrous size: 03×1.5cm, edible sweet yellow pulpy mucilage
    Seed: white solitary ovoid size:18x6mm

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    08 September 2024 NP 01: 5 images.
    Please identify the tree

    Location: Chimmony WLS, Kerala
    Date: 08-Sep-2024
    Habit: Tree
    Habitat: Semi-evergreen forest
    Bark: Pale white with trunk fluting

    The species identified as Dryptes elata

     

     

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    References:
    POWO  Catalogue of Life  GBIF (High resolution specimens) Flora of peninsular India  Flickr India Biodiversity Portal  IBIS Flora (Flora of British India) Biotik  Wikipedia  Wikimedia Commons

  • Drypetes indica

    Drypetes indica (Müll.Arg.) Pax & K.Hoffm., H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr., IV, 147, XV: 278 (1922) (syn: Cyclostemon indicus Müll.Arg.; Cyclostemon griffithii Hook.f. ; Cyclostemon hieranensis Hayata ; Cyclostemon karapinensis Hayata ; Cyclostemon lancifolius Hook.f. ; Drypetes griffithii (Hook.f.) Pax & K.Hoffm. ; Drypetes hieranensis (Hayata) Pax & K.Hoffm. ; Drypetes karapinensis (Hayata) Pax & K.Hoffm. ; Drypetes karapinensis var. hieranensis (Hayata) Hurus. ; Drypetes lancifolia (Hook.f.) Pax & K.Hoffm. ; Drypetes longipes X.H.Song);
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    Sikkim to S. China and Indo-China, Taiwan: Assam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Laos, Myanmar, Taiwan, Thailand as per POWO;
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    Similar to D.assamica and D. subsessilis but leaves thinly coriaceous, ovate lanceolate 8-12*2.5-4cm, abruptly caudate-acuminate, petioles 2-4mm, flowers solitary or few in short racemes males 2.5mm diameter, stamens 4-8, females on long pedicels 2.5-3.5cm, stigmas borne on short styles fruit ellpsoid 2.5cm.
    April-May
    Warm broad-Leaved forests
    (Attributions: Grierson A.J.C &Long D.G. Flora of Bhutan. Volume 1 Part 3. Published by RBGE 1987 as per Bhutan Biodiversity Portal )
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    References:
    POWO  Catalogue of Life  GBIF (High resolution specimens)  BSI Flora of India  Flora of China  FOC illustration Bhutan Biodiversity Portal iNaturalist

  • Drypetes elliptica ?

    Drypetes elliptica (Hook.f.) Pax & K.Hoffm., Pflanzenr. IV, 147, XV: 244 1922. (syn: Cyclostemon ellipticus Hook.f.);
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    Myanmar as per POWO;
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    Requesting identity of this tree from Nagaland: 2 images.
    This tree in fruiting was collected recently from Nagaland. Requesting identity.

    Combretaceae ??

    This could be a species of Drypetes

    I believe your sharp eye detected this plant at generic level although such flattened fruits are very unusual in Drypetes! Could these be the hitherto unknown fruits of Drypetes elliptica (Hook.f.) Pax & K.Hoffm. described on the basis of male flowering material from Myanmar? Else this could be a new species as well! I have told the collector to try to collect the flowers which are required in arriving at a definite conclusion.

    I cannot take any credit for guessing the generic identity of this species as I had also received the same image from the same source some time back, who had told me that you have tentatively identified this as Drypetes elliptica. I had not realised that it was you who had posted the image on the group to get an opinion from the larger community.
    I however agree with you, I do not think it is Drypetes elliptica as the leaves dont quite match with the herbarium specimen at Kew.
    I hope that we get to the bottom of this someday, since it is likely to turn out to be a new record for India if not a new taxon.


    Here I am attaching the description and drawing of Drypetes elliptica (from our publication on Drypetes) mainly based on a sheet collected by P.T. Russell from Myanmar. Here we can see that the leaves are matching with the images of plant but the ovary is said to be subglobose in the description. Further, Kanjilal et al., Fl. Assam 4: 178. 1940 reported the occurrence of the species in India from North Cachar Hills on the basis of male flowering specimens but I have not seen their collection. Let us hope that “time will show” the actual identity.
    2 images.

    Leaves in these images by and large match with the illustration attached and GBIF specimens- one and two.
    But the details of the fruits are not available in the description.
    If it can be found and matched and other species found in the area are ruled out, it will confirm.

     

     

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    References: POWO  Catalogue of Life  The Plant List Ver.1.1  WCSP  GBIF specimens- one and two (High resolution specimens)
    A revision of the genus Drypetes Vahl is presented for the Indian (1997) (pdf)- T. Chakrabarty, M. Gangopadhyay & N. P. Balakrishnan

  • Drypetes confertiflora

    Drypetes confertiflora (Hook.f.) Pax & K.Hoffm., Pflanzenr. IV, 147, XV: 246 1922. (syn: Cyclostemon confertiflorus Hook.f.);
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    India (Karnataka) as per WCSP;
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    Trees, to 25 m high; bark greyish, smooth; blaze dull yellow; branchlets glabrous, brownish, terete. Leaves simple, alternate; stipules lateral, small, caducous; petiole 5-12 mm long, stout, grooved above, glabrous; lamina 6-22 x 2.5-7.5 cm, oblong or elliptic-oblong, base oblique, apex obtusely acuminate, margin entire or distantly serrate, glabrous and glossy, coriaceous; lateral nerves 7-10 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers unisexual, axillary but usually in clusters on old wood; male flowers: pedicels 4-5 mm long; tepals 5-6, 4-6 × 3.5-5.5 mm, suborbicular, white, ciliate; stamens 15-20; filaments glabrous; inserted around disc; anthers oblong; disc impressed, large, glabrous, radiately ribbed with inflexed marginal lobe; female flowers: nearly sessile; disc cupular; ovary superior, brown tomentose, 2-celled, ovules 2. Fruit a drupe, 3.5-5 cm across, subglobose, some what flattened, pubescent, 2-locular; endocarp fleshy.

    Flowering and fruiting: February-May
    Evergreen and semi-evergreen forests
    Southern Western Ghats
    (Attributions- Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi from India Biodiversity Portal)
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    Drypetes confertiflora images : 6 posts by 1 author. 5 images- 2 to 7 mb each.
    May I request you to pl. post/ send your images of Drypetes confertiflora for incorporation in efloraofindia.

    Please find attached.

     

     

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    References:

    Catalogue of Life  The Plant List Ver.1.1  WCSP  POWO  GBIF (High resolution specimens) Flora of Karnataka  India Biodiversity Portal  IBIS Flora (FBI) Kerala plants

    The Keystone Drypetes [Drypetes confertiflora (Hook.F.) Pax & Hoffm. (Euphorbiaceae)]: Notes on Ecology, Associations, Limits and Seed Germination– R. R. Rakesh, C. K. Somen, T. J. Roby, J. Mathew- The Indian Forester Volume 143, Issue 2, February 2017 (Abstract- Drypetes confertiflora is strict endemic and a key stone species in the riparian zonations of evergreen and semi-evergreen forests of Kerala part of Western Ghats, persists on six remaining locations. This study assessed the status analysis and seed germination of this naturally vulnerable plant. The low reproductive success of D. confertiflora leads to the extinction of the species in the nearby future. Successful population reinforcement had been made by nursery techniques to conserve this species. The data presented in this paper would provide useful information for the conservation of this rare and endemic taxa)

    Forest Trees of South India By S.G. Neginhal IFS

  • Drypetes sepiaria ?

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    Fwd: Id-Shrilanka 10. tree.Jan 2020. : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (2)

    Id of the tree pl

    Resembles Drypetes sepiaraia, Putranjivaceae member, 

    Yes, it’s

  • Drypetes oblongifolia

    Drypetes oblongifolia (Bedd.) Airy Shaw (syn: Cyclostemon macrophyllus var. penincularis Hook.f.; Laneasagum oblongifolium Bedd.);
    SW. India, Sri Lanka as per WCSP;

    Common name: Oblong-Leaf Boxwood • Malayalam: Malampayin

    Habit- Trees up to 12 m tall.

    Trunk & Bark- Trunk fluted; bark greyish, smooth, sparsely lenticellate; blaze light orange.\
    Branches and Branchlets- Branchlets stout, terete, glabrous.
    Leaves- Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; stipules ovate to oblong, 0.7 cm long, caducous; petiole 0.4-1 cm long, stout, planoconvex in cross section, pubescent when young; lamina 12-30 x 5-11 cm, oblong to elliptic-oblong, apex abruptly shortly acuminate, base rounded, margin entire or distantly serrate, glabrous, coriaceous; midrib flat above; secondary nerves 6-10 pairs, strong; tertiary nerves strongly and broadly reticulate.
    Inflorescence / Flower- Flower unisexual, dioecious, in axillary or lateral clusters, often on old wood, sessile.
    Fruit and Seed- Drupe, subglobose, to 2.5 cm across, densely rufous hirsute, sessile; seeds 2.
    Understorey trees in low and medium elevation wet evergreen forests between 400 and 1400 m.
    Endemic to the Western Ghats- South and Central (Coorg and Chikmagalur Regions) Sahyadris.
    (Attributions- B. R. Ramesh, N. Ayyappan, Pierre Grard, Juliana Prosperi, S. Aravajy, Jean Pierre Pascal, The Biotik Team, French Institute of Pondicherry from India Biodiversity Portal)
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    Drypetes oblongifolia (Putranjivaceae) : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1)

    Botanical name: Drypetes oblongifolia (Bedd.) Airy Shaw

    Basionym: Laneasagam oblongifolium Bedd.
    Location: Tamil Nadu, India.
    Habit: Trees, 5 – 25 m high.
    Habitat: Rare in evergreen forests of Western Ghats, often along streams and river banks between 200 – 1500 m altitudes.
    Distribution: India (Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala) and ?Sri Lanka.

     

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    Fwd: Drypetes oblongifolia images : 1 post by 1 author.

    Please find attached, images of Drypetes oblongifolia (Bedd.) Airy Shaw with male flowers and a developing fruit, from Sakleshpura, Karnataka, Feb, 2014.

     

  • Drypetes porteri

    Endangered as per IUCN Red List (EN)
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    Drypetes porteri (Gamble) Pax & K.Hoffm., Pflanzenr. IV, 147, XV: 268 1922. (syn: Hemicyclia porteri Gamble);
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    India (Tamil Nadu) as per WCSP;
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    Habit- Trees up to 10 m tall.

    Trunk & Bark- Bark grey, peeling off in large flakes; blaze light orange.
    Branches and Branchlets- Branchlets brown or greyish, terete, glabrous.
    Leaves- Leaves simple, alternate distichous; stipule caducous; petiole 0.3-0.8 cm long, lamina 5-9 x 2-4 cm, elliptic to ovate, apex acuminate with blunt tip, base asymmetric, margin entire, thinly coriaceous, glabrous; midrib flat above; secondary nerves 5-7 pairs sometimes with hairy domatia at the axils at least 1 or 2 lower most pairs; tertiary nerves reticulate.
    Inflorescence / Flower- Flowers unisexual, dioecious, in axillary clusters.
    Fruit and Seed- Drupe, densely rufous hirsute, seeds 2.
    Understorey trees in dry evergreen forests.
    Endemic to the Western Ghats- mostly confined to Varushanad Hills and rarely recorded in leeward side of the Agasthyamalai Hills.
    (Attributions- B. R. Ramesh, N. Ayyappan, Pierre Grard, Juliana Prosperi, S. Aravajy, Jean Pierre Pascal, The Biotik Team, French Institute of Pondicherry from India Biodiversity Portal)
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    Fwd: Drypetes porteri images : 3 images- 4 to 5 mb each.
    May I request you to pl. send your images of Drypetes porteri for incorporation in efloraofindia.

    I am sending a few pictures of Drypetes porteri as you requested for incorporation efloraofindia. Kindly acknowledge the same on the photograph in the site.

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    Drypetes porteri : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (2)- 1 mb each.
    Found in Auroville Botanical garden.

     

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    References:
    Catalogue of Life  The Plant List Ver.1.1  WCSP  POWO  BSI Flora of India  India Biodiversity Portal  Biotik  IUCN Red List (EN)  Flora of Peninsular India
    Rediscovery and Lectotypification of Drypetes porteri (Putranjivaceae: Phyllanthoideae: Drypeteae), A Narrow Endemic and Endangered Species of the Western Ghats, India (Abstract- Drypetes porteri (Gamble) Pax & K. Hoffm. is rediscovered after type collection (121 years) from type locality from Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary, southern Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu, India. Lectotypification, brief description amended with fruit morphology and colour photographs are provided here for easy identification.)

  • Drypetes assamica

    Drypetes assamica (Hook.f.) Pax & K.Hoffm., Pflanzenr. IV, 147, XV: 241 1922. (syn: Cyclostemon assamicus Hook.f.);
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    India: Moist evergreen forests, primary forests, deciduous forests, subtropical forests, up to 1400 m altitude. Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Assam, Nagaland, Tripura, Mizoram, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh and Andaman Islands; Bhutan, Bangladesh, Thailand and Indo-China as per BSI Flora of India ;
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    Andaman Is.; Assam; Bangladesh; East Himalaya; India; Myanmar; Thailand as per Catalogue of Life;
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    Tree 10-15m. leaves coriaceous, elliptic 8-18*3-6cm, shortly acuminate base oblique rounded or broadly cunate entire lateral veins spreading petioles 5-10mm. Male flowers in axillary fasciles 10mm diameter, on pedicels 5mm, stamens 8-12. Female flowers solitary axillary on pedicels 4-6mm, sepals 5mm, ciliate stigmas sessile. Drupes ellipsoid 2*1.5cm, shallowly furrowed densely brown appressed pubescent.

    December-January
    Subtropical forests
    (Attributions- Grierson A.J.C &Long D.G. Flora of Bhutan. Volume 1 Part 3. Published by RBGE 1987 from Bhutan Biodiversity Portal)
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    Drypetes assamica (Hook.f.) Pax & K.Hoffm. (Putranjivaceae) from North Bengal : 3 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (2)
    I am sharing these photographs as there is no image of this species in efi site. This is a small tree and the commonest species of Drypetes in North-East India and Andamans and extending to Bhutan, Bangladesh, Thailand and Indo-China.
    Photographs by: Dr. Gopal Krishna, Central National Herbarium, BSI, Howrah.

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    Tree Id request! : 19 posts by 5 authors. Attachments (1) – 5 mb.
    Could you please help me identify this tree species. Its a medium-sized tree.
    Photographed on 20.03.2020 Near Nepal India Border in eastern Nepal at 100m asl. 

    Pl. post detailed images showing all aspects including habit.


    Thanks for the response. I have only this photo where tree bark can be seen.
    You may have a look into it.
    Attachments (1) – 5 mb

    Wild guess seems to Casearia sp, check once with local floras which one mentioned there …,
    matched characters are Alternate leaves, inflorescence axillary clusters with small peduncles and fruits with lobes or slight pyrens,

    Thank you … Yes it could be member of Caesaria. I will check it and update.

    Does not shape of drupe look different?

    Please compare with Drypetes subsessilis of Putranjivaceae.

    Thank you very much for your kind cooperation. Your suggestion is very helpful. It resembles more with D. assamica.
    I think we are pretty close.
    …: I think its more close to Drypetes assamica. 

    There are three closely related species: D. assamica, D. bhattacharyae and D. subsessilis. Here, your fruits are subsessile which suggests D. subsessilis. For confirmation, you should have the male flowers. The male flowers in D. subsessilis are up to 5 mm in diameter with 3-4 stamens while in D. assamica, the male flowers are about 10 mm in diameter with 8-12 stamens.
    In case you wish to treat them as conspecific, then the name D. subsessilis will have to be adopted for the combined species.

    Thanks for the detail information about the species. I will wait for flowers and update you about the flower characters.

    Yes, … is correct it’s Drypetes only, check properly for sp., Thank you so much … for enlightening from the post,

    Is Drypetes listed in Nepal? Looks like a new sp. for Nepal !

    You are right. No Drypetes has been recorded so far for Nepal but two species are there in Bhutan (assamica and subsessilis).

    Thanks a lot, …, for nailing this id.
    On examination of specimens in GBIF, I feel it is Drypetes assamica and not Drypetes subsessilis as per specimens herein and as per the following specimens:

    Look for flower in Jan- May !

    Thank you very much for your support to nail it down. yes, it is
    Hope I will be able to collect flowers soon and update you!
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    Regarding id of the Species Date of Photograph Sept.2022/Khurda Odisha: 6 images.

    Glochidion ??

    I do not think so as per images at
    https://efloraofindia.com/2011/03/02/glochidion/

    Any chance of this being a
    https://efloraofindia.com/2011/02/26/diospyros/

    Yes, I think it’s some Diospyros.

    the stigma is interesting, i too feel to search for Diospyros, place of collection

    It is from Khurda Odisha

    Where do we find such stigma (otherwise it seems like a Diospyros)?

    I checked species of Diospyros listed in Flora of Peninsular India with distribution in the area.

    But could not find any match.

    Drypetes assamica

    It is Aporosa species; the style, and chusters of female flowers are identical; Drypetes have usu. solitary flowers, we collected D.assamica, it has accuminate leaves, stigma different.

    could you please share the images of what you have collected ?


    floral branch not collected. thank you for making me to re-examine.
    3 images.

    Your plant is definitely Drypetes. I am also quite sure that the images by … are female flowers of Drypetes.

    could it be Drypetes subsessilis, because, both male and female flowers clustered; (In Drypetes assamica female flowers solitary, stigma different:) here  Pistillate flowers: sepals orbicular, concave; ovary pubescent, 2- or 3-locular, stigmas 2 or 3, obtriangular. there is a record of this species in Odisha.

    It may Diospyros

    Identified as a Drypetes species.

    After going through BSI Flora of India and descriptions of Drypetes subsessilis (Kurz) Pax & K.Hoffm. (GBIF Link) and Drypetes assamica (Hook.f) Pax & K.Hoffm. (GBIF Link), as stigma is flabelate and leaves are entire, I feel it is Drypetes assamica (Hook.f) Pax & K.Hoffm. (GBIF Link)

    I feel … images are also of Drypetes assamica (Hook.f) Pax & K.Hoffm. (GBIF Link):
    https://efloraofindia.com/2018/03/28/drypetes-assamica/

  • Drypetes sepiaria

    Drypetes sepiaria (Wight & Arn.) Pax & K.Hoffm., Pflanzenr. IV, 147, XV: 271 1922. (syn: Hemicyclia sepiaria Wight & Arn.; Hemicyclia sepiaria var. australasica Baill.; Hemicyclia sepiaria var. oblongifolia Benth.);
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    India, Sri Lanka as per WCSP;
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    Common name: Hedge Boxwood • Malayalam: Vellakasavu, Veeramaram • Tamil: Kalvirai, Aadumilukkan, Veerai, Kaayalakkamaram, Vellilambu
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    Evergreen trees, to 15 m high, bark grey, thin, smooth; branchlets yellowish or blackish, terete. Leaves simple, alternate; stipules small, caducous; petiole 3-8 mm, stout, puberulent; lamina 2-9 x 1.5-4.5 cm, ovate, elliptic, ovate-oblong, ovate-elliptic or orbicular, base round or cordate, apex obtuse or round and retuse, margin entire or crenate, thickly coriaceous, glabrous, shining; lateral nerves 4-8 pairs, slender, pinnate, obscure, ascending, intercostae reticulate, obscure. Flowers unisexual, yellowish, in axillary clusters; male flowers: pedicel 4-7 mm, pubescent; tepals 4, 3-4 x 2.5-3.5 mm, small, concave, ciliate, obtuse, imbricate; stamens 6-10; filaments 2 mm, free; anthers oblong; disc disciform or shortly cupular; female flowers: pedicel 1-10 mm long, pubescent; tepals 4, 2-4 x 1.7-3.5 mm, small, concave, ciliate; disc annular, crenate; ovary ovoid, 1-1.5 mm across, 1-locular, ovules 2; style 1; stigma broad, cupular, peltate, fimbriate. Fruit a drupe 8 mm across, globose, glabrous, red; epicarp crinkled; seed 1, arillate.       

    Flowering and fruiting: January-April
    Dry and moist deciduous forests, also the sacred groves in the plains
    Peninsular India and Sri Lanka
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    Drypetes sepiaria ? :
    May I know, this plant is Drypetes sepiaria; if not please help me; it is small tree in eastrenghats.

    Yes, it does look like Drypetes sepiaria.
    Nice pictures!

    This is Drypetes sepiaria (Euphorbiaceae).

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    Drypetus sepiaria (Wt. &Arn.) Pax & Hoffm. SN Feb-16 :  Attachments (2). 2 posts by 2 authors.
    Drypetus sepiaria (Wt. &Arn.) Pax & Hoffm. (= Hemicyclia sepiaria Wt & Arn.), Fam: Euphorbiaceae

    shrub, stem hard, leaves coriaceous,
    South Chennai, Scrub jungle
    27/02/2011
    How do you expect someone to identify a photo without flowers or fruits. Please do the needful. Yes. it looks like D. sepiaria.
    Dryptes sepiaria : 4 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (2)- 1 Mb each.
    Found in Puthupattu near Pondicherry.
    Another picture.

    Attachments (1)- 793 kb.

    Drypetes sepiaria images : 3 posts by 2 authors. 3 images- 2 mb or more.
    May I request you to pl. post your images of Drypetes sepiaria for incorporation in efloraofindia.

    Pl find attached the photos as requested

    The ID is correct. This is very common in Chennai surroundings.