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Huberantha korinti (Dunal) Chaowasku (syn: Hubera korinti (Dunal) Chaowasku; Guatteria korinti Dunal; Polyalthia korinti (Dunal) Thwaites); .
Habit- Small trees up to 5 m tall. Trunk & Bark- Bark brownish, smooth.
Branches and branchlets- Branchlets terete, glabrous, lenticellate.
Leaves- Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; petiole 0.3-0.4 cm long, canaliculate, glabrous; lamina 6-8 x 3-4, elliptic to ovate-elliptic, apex acuminate and twisted, base acute, margin entire, glabrous beneath; midrib raised above; secondary nerves ca. 6 pairs, domatia present at axils; tertiary nerves broadly reticulate to obscure.
Inflorescence / Flower- Flowers solitary, axillary.
Fruit and Seed- Cluster of 1-seeded ovoid berries.
Understorey trees in dry evergreen forests ca. 300 m.
South India and Sri Lanka; in the Western Ghats- Agasthyamalai.
(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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Polyalthia species : 4 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (3) Found in Mannur near Chennai.
Huberantha korintii (Polyalthia korintii) . Found in Mannur, Tamil Nadu,
the leaf and fruits does not match with Polyalthia suberosa; may be Polyalthia korinti young fruits half damaged flower are seen in first picture, based on the characters of leaf, and other available characters it is Polyalthia korinti only . References:
Huberantha, a replacement name for Hubera (Annonaceae: Malmeoideae: Miliuseae)- Tanawat Chaowasku, David M. Johnson, Raymond W. J. M. van der Ham & Lars W. Chatrou- KEW BULLETIN (2015) 70: 23
Catalogue of Life (Hubera korinti (Dunal) Chaowasku ) The Plant List Ver.1.1 (Polyalthia korintii Hook. f. & Thomson) Tropicos GBIF (with type specimen) India Biodiversity Portal Biotik Wikipedia Encyclopedia of Life (Images) Pitchandikulam Forest Virtual Herbarium Flora of Eastern Ghats: Hill Ranges of South East India, Volume 1 By T. Pullaiah, D. Muralidhara Rao, K. Sri Ramamurthy (2002- details)
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