Elaeocarpus venustus

IUCN Red List Status: Vulnerable (VU)

Elaeocarpus venustus Bedd., Fl. Sylv. S. India t. 174 1872.;

 

It is narrowly distributed in the southern end of the Western Ghats, occurring in Chimunji and Muthukuzhivayal and nearby areas.

A large tree of submontane evergreen forest.

 
Trees, to 15 m high; branches glabrous. Leaves simple, alternate; stipules lateral, cauducous; petiole 10-20 mm, stout, glabrous; lamina 6-12 x 3-5 cm, elliptic-obovate or obovate, base attenuate, apex acute or obtusely acute, margin serrate, glabrous, coriaceous, lateral nerves 6-8 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae reticulate, prominent; glands in the axils of nerves beneath. Flowers bisexual, white, in axillary racemes; sepals 5, ovate-lanceolate, pubescent, valvate; petals 5, laciniate, tomentose, inserted round the base of glandular disc; stamens numerous, inserted between the glands the glands on the disc; anthers awned; ovary superior, glabrous, 2-celled, ovules 2 in each cell; style subulate, entire. Fruit a drupe 5 x 2.5 cm, ovoid.
Flowering and fruiting: July-December
Evergreen forests
Southern Western Ghats
 
 
The attached paper finds the ecology and distribution of endangered Elaeocarpus venustus in the southern most part of Western Ghats.
More pictures in BIOTIK

 

 
 
 
 
 

References:

IUCN Red List (VU)  India Biodiversity Portal  The Plant List Elaeocarpus venustus Bedd. as a syn. of Elaeocarpus monocera Cav.)  Wikipedia  

Biodiversity and Its Conservation in India  By Sharad Singh Negi