Eurya nitida

Eurya nitida Korth., Verh. Nat. Gesch. Ned. Bezitt., Bot. 115 1841. (syn; Eurya elliptica Gardn.; Eurya fasciculata Buch.-Ham. ex Wall.; Eurya japonica var. nitida (Korth.) This.-Dyer; Eurya japonica var. thunbergii Thw. (ambiguous synonym); Eurya ladronica Hosokawa; Eurya ponapensis Hosokawa; Eurya rapensis Forest Brown; Eurya systyla Miq. ex Dyer; Eurya virens Bl.; Eurya wallichiana Steud. (ambiguous synonym); Eurya wightiana Wall.) as per Catalogue of Life;

China (Hainan, Guangdong, Guangxi, S-Hunan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Sichuan, W-Hubei,
S-Jiangxi, Fujian, S-Zhejiang), Vietnam, Myanmar [Burma] (Mon, Kachin),
Philippines (Batanes, Luzon, Mindoro, Negros, Mindanao), peninsular Malaysia
(Kedah, Terengganu, Perak, Pahang), Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Micronesia (Yap,
Pohnpei), Northern Marianas (Agrihan, Pagan, Alamagan), Palau Isl. (Babeldaob,
Koror, Ngarakabesang, Malakal), Southern Marianas (Guam), American Samoa
(Tutuila), India (Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur,
Mizoram, Tripura, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala), Sri Lanka, Austral Isl. (Rapa
Iti) as per Catalogue of Life;

Kannada: Huluni, Mukkorone

Malayalam: Kattukarana, Arruttuvarai, Kooramar, Kattu-theyila

Habit- Small trees up to 5 m tall.

Trunk\bark- Bark brown, smooth; blaze brown.

Branchlets- Young branchlets angular with two lateral ridges, glabrous.

Leaves- Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; petiole 0.3-1 cm long, canaliculate, glabrous; lamina 2.5-10 x 1.5-4 cm, elliptic to elliptic-oblanceolate, apex acuminate with retuse tip, base acute to cuneate, margin serrulate, glabrous, coriaceous, dark green and shining above, pale beneath; midrib slightly canaliculate above; secondary nerves up to 8 pairs, impressed above; tertiary nerves broadly reticulate.

Flowers- Flowers unisexual, greenish-white, in axillary fasicles, subsessile.

Fruit & seed- Berry, globose, purplish black when ripe; seeds many.

Along margin of medium and high elevation evegreen forests up to 700 and 2200 m.

Indomalayasia and China; in the Western Ghats- South and Central Sahyadris.

(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)