Premna paucinervis (C.B.Clarke) Gamble, Fl. Madras: 1095 (1924) (syn: Premna purpurascens var. paucinervis C.B.Clarke );
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SW. India (Kerala, Tamil Nadu) as per POWO;
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683 ID wild tree Premna: 23 high res. images.
Please ID wild tree, gathered all bees ‘n flies in the locality for enjoying nectar,
Location: bloomed near Vannappuram Thodupuzha Idukki Kerala INDIA
Altitude: 1500fsl
Flower date: 24APR2022, 02.45pm
Habitat: wild moisture rocky sloppy windy misty streamside highland
Plant habit: large parasitic branched liana, hard woody cylindrical silvery gray stem 15cm base diameter
Height: 02 meter
Leaves: opposite elliptic acute simple, size upto: 09×5cm
Flower: terminal corymbose cyme, clustered, white, good fragrance, diameter:03.5mm
Fruit: berry green into violet to dark blue ovoid glabrous size: 06x3mm
Seed: black single ovoid size: 04x2mm
Seed: black single ovoid size: 04x2mm
Premna coriacea C.B.Clarke
Yes, it is Premna coriacea dear …, thank you very much for ID my tree, and it is deciduous tree
As per efi thread:
“… Yes, it is, Robi ji identified it as Premna paucinervis (C.B.Clarke) Gamble.
“… Yes, it is, Robi ji identified it as Premna paucinervis (C.B.Clarke) Gamble.
Thank you very much for ID my plant,
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References:
POWO Flora of Peninsular India
Rediscovery of an endemic and rare Premna paucinervis (Verbenaceae) from the Western Ghats after a century– July 2013 Rheedea 23(1)- A.J. Robi*, Jomy Augustine, N. Sasidharan and P.S. Udayan