Premna bengalensis

Tree about 30-60 ft tall with trunk circumference of about 220-300 cm and irregularly often fantastically fluted. Bark grayish white or brown, exfoliating in thin corky papery flakes about 2 cm thick, branches and branchlets quadrangular, flattened, young parts pubescent with yellowish stellate hairs and glabrous when mature. Leaves simple opposite, lanceolate-ovate to elliptic, 7.5-24 x 4-15 cm across, base acute or obtuse, margins entire or slightly undulate, apex shallow acuminate to acute, chartaceous, dark green, pubescent along the midrib above, slightly pubescent when young and glabrous when mature and slightly paler, stellately pubescent beneath, lateral veins 7-12 on either side of the midvein, ascending, forked at apex, veins impressed above and prominent beneath, petiole slender, stout, stellate pubescent, glandular, canaliculated about 1.2-4 cm long, exstipulate. Inflorescence terminal corymbose panicles, dichotomously branched, composed or 3-6 pairs of opposite branched cymes, about 12-20 x 10-15 cm across, peduncles flattened, pubescent with yellowish brown stellate hairs, obtusely quadrangular, about 3-7 mm long, bracts linear lanceolate, about 2-6 mm long, Flowers lax, numberous, bisexual, zygomorphic, pedicel about 1 mm long, calyx campanulate 5 toothed, about 2 mm long, teeth acute, pubescent outside, about 0.3 mm long, corolla infundibular, 4 lobed, 2 lipped, white, about 2 mm long, lower lip 3 lobed, midlobe obovate, apex obtuse, about 2 x 1 mm long, glabrous outside, densely pubescent in the throat, stamens 4, didynamous, filaments glabrous, filiform, about 3 mm long, anthers globose, 2 loculed, about 0.5 mm long, ovary ovoid or globose, about 1 mm across, style slender, filiform about 3 mm long, stigma bi-lobed, Fruit drupaceous, obovoid or 0.5-0.8 cm in diameter, subglobose, fruiting calyx cupular, obscurely verrose, black when ripe.

(Attributions- Ganeshaiah, K. N., UAS, Bangalore, India. Kailash, B. R., UAS & ATREE, Bangalore, India. Indian Bioresource Information Network (IBIN), Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi, India. from India Biodiversity Portal)
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Hooghly Today : unknown small tree with standard leaf and small flowers : Attachments (10 + 5).  5 posts by 3 authors.

Found this small tree on rural roadside.

May be Premna sp.?

Thank you very very much for the ID. As per keys described in the Bengal Plants, it may be the Premna bengalensis Clarke.

Attaching a few more images, recorded on 2/6/13. Also links –

1. europeana
2. europeana.eu
3. http://plants.jstor.org/specimen/e00301953

No, other Premna of Bengal Plants seems to be matching with this plant.

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Fwd: PREMNA BENGALENSIS ??? : 10 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1)

Attaching a collage of a medium size tree. Tiny flowers are white in colour and are visited by butterflies.

Will you please validate the identity of the species?

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Difficult to say with these images. Close ups are required for proper id.

Pl. check images at Premna bengalensis

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I prefer separate images in stead of collage.

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id request Premna: 3 images.
Please check the attached images of Premna, looking for species… as it differs from barbata.

Captured-  Srinagar Garhwal Uk.

alt 900m.

8 june 2021

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Premna mollisssima

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already checked but there is no distribution of the same in UK, HP, and JK as per POWO.

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Ok, Is there distribution of Premna corymbosa

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Yes no doubt POWO Don’t have distribution of  Premna mollissima but flora of Garhwal shows its distribution in the area.

According to Flora of Garhwal.. there are P. barbata, P. herbacea, P. interrupta, P. latifolia in the same region.

So it may be P. mollissima for me, I think … Sir can help.

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Was it planted ?

To me appears close to images and details at Premna bengalensis C.B.Clarke as per comparative images at Premna

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oh yes! it appears P.bengalensis. no doubt POWO doesn’t show its distribution in WH but it seems close to bengalensis. … Sir may help us, as this is not in Flora of Garhwal UK.

thank you … for unearthing. attaching one more image of the same.

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Was I planted or wild?

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Wild Sir.

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References: POWO  Catalogue of Life  The Plant List  Annonated checklist of the flowering plants of Nepal  Encyclopedia of Life (Specimen)  India Biodiversity Portal  GBIF (specimen)