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. Dioecious trees, to 18 m high, bark 3 mm thick, dull grey to black, thin; blaze yellow; branchlets puberulous. Leaves simple, alternate, estipulate; petiole 5-10 mm long, slender, glabrous; lamina 5-15 x 2-5 cm, elliptic, ovate, elliptic-oblong or elliptic-obovate, base acute or cuneate, apex acute, acuminate or obtusely acuminate, margin entire, glabrous, shining, membranous; lateral nerves 5-8 pairs, pinnate, obscure, intercostae reticulate, obscure. Flowers unisexual, white; male flowers: 6-10 in axillary cymes, 6 mm across; peduncle 5 mm long, puberulous; calyx 3 mm long, campanulate; lobes 4, ovate, acute, pubescent outside; corolla 6 mm long, campanulate, lobes 4, triangular, obtuse; stamens about 24; filaments in unequal pairs, ciliate at apex; female flowers; solitary or 3 together, 8-10 mm across; calyx much longer than in male, lobes ovate-oblong, acute; corolla campanulate; lobes triangular, obtuse; staminodes 4, inserted on the corolla and alternate with its lobes; ovary superior, globose, pubescent, 6-8-celled, 1-ovule in each cell; style 3-4, free, glabrous, bilobed with fringed margins. Fruit a berry, 16-18 mm across, globose, dark green, fruiting calyx enlarged, flat, foliaceous, spreading; seeds 2-8, oblong, rugose, shining, albumen ruminate. Flowering and fruiting: March-April Evergreen and semi-evergreen forests Indo-Malesia Fwd: [efloraofindia:177943] ID please RF 4 : 5 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (2) A tree of Thane District called Malya Diospyros sylvatica Resembling Hydnocarpus… but need more details. In several places in this area the locals call Diospyros sylvatica as Malya It seems to be Diospyros sylvatica Roxb. However it is not possible to confirm without flowers and fruits. Yes, appears close to images at Biotik .
Location-Saltar forest Habitat-Sapling , Regeneration of a tree Habitat- Wild, hill forest Altitude-1000 m Photographed -April 2023 Diospyros sylvatica Yes, possible as per https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/gallery?taxon_key=8321948 https://efloraofindia.com/2014/01/20/diospyros-sylvatica/ http://flora-peninsula-indica.ces.iisc.ac.in/herbsheet.php?id=3532&cat=7 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Diospyros_sylvatica .
Diospyros sylvatica Roxb. Matheran :: Apr 1, 2023 · 2:35 PM IST :: about 800 m (2,625 ft) asl Many thanks to Radha Veach for validating the ID at iNaturalist .
it looks like Diospyros montana only; definitely not D.sylvatica– based on leaf and inflorescence Yes it is jagada gandi, D.montana, one of the common species. Fruiting calyx enlarged. Looks different from images at https://efloraofindia.com/efi/diospyros-montana/ After going through all the species listed in Flora of Peninsular India, I feel the id by … is correct. . |
Diospyros sylvatica
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