{"id":1252129,"date":"2020-07-09T06:06:26","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T06:06:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-24T11:22:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T05:52:12","slug":"dillenia-bracteata","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/efi\/dillenia-bracteata\/","title":{"rendered":"Dillenia bracteata"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dillenia<\/i> bracteata<\/i> Wight, Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient. 2: t. 358 1840<\/cite>. (syn: Dillenia repanda<\/em> Roxb.<\/font><\/a>; Wormia bracteata<\/em> (Wight) Hook.f. & Thomson<\/font><\/a>) as per POWO<\/font><\/a>;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Trees about 30-60 ft tall.<\/font> Young shoots tomentose, branches with prominent leaf scars. Leaves simple, spirally arranged, ovate-elliptic or obovate-elliptic, 16-46 x 5-19 cm across, base acute or obtuse, margins entire or very faintly serrate, apex obtuse or rounded, chartaceous, strigose mainly on the nerves beneath, lateral veins 15-22 on either side of the midrib, ascending obscure, impressed above, prominent, hirsute on the veins, glabrescent when mature beneath, reticulate veinlets, petioles stout, about 1-5 cm long. Flowers yellow, solitary on shoots or 2-7 flowered clusters near the shoots of older branches, of about 2.5 x 3 cm across, pedicels thick at apex, about 5-10 mm long, bracts, foliaceous, lanceolate or spathulate, sessile, apex acute, caducous, hirsute, about 8-11 x 3-4 mm across, Calyx 5 toothed, sepals ovate, obtuse or acute, coriaceous, reddish, pubescent, about 8-12 x 4-9 mm across, Corolla 5 lobed, petals obovate, yellow, apex obtuse or rounded, about 15-19 x 5-9 cm across, Stamens free, numerous, almost equal in length in 2 series, the outer numerous, inwardly curved, inner outwardly curved, about 9 mm long, anthers linear, slightly emarginated at the apex, pinkish blue. Carpels 58, around the conical receptacle, with 2 rows of ovules up to 30, styles curved, about 9 mm long, Fruits pseudocarps indehiscent, enclosed by enlarged thickened sepals, about 2.5-3 cm in diameter, subglobose, orange when ripe. Fruiting carpels 1-2 seeded, seeds ovoid, about 5 mm, dark brown to black.<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

Evergreen to semi evergreen forests, altitude up to 3300 ft.<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Local Distribution: Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu. Endemic. Global Distribution: Asia: India.<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
(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 as per India Biodiversity Portal<\/font><\/a>)<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Dillenia bracteata Wight<\/a> : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments<\/span> (4)<\/font><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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endemic<\/b> to South India. Within A.P it is located in Kambakkam hills of Chittoor district of A.P at high altitudes.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Plant name: Dillenia bracteata<\/em> Wight<\/font><\/p>\n

Common names: Racemed fish bone tree<\/strong> (Eng.); Chiruteku<\/strong>,\u00a0 Kalla teku<\/strong> (Tel.)<\/font><\/p>\n

Description: Evergreen tree. Bark greyish-brown; young shoots tomentose. Leaves elliptic-obovate 15-45 x 5-20 cm, entire or crenate, coriaceous, glabrescent at maturity; lateral nerves 12-20 pairs. Flowers white turning yellow, 7-9 cm across, in few flowered racemes or in clusters on old branches; pedicels about 1cm long, silky. Stamens\u00a0 numerous; anthers\u00a0 linear. Carpels 5, styles 5, free. Pseudocarp 2-3cm in dia., 1-2 seeded; seeds ovoid, dark reddish-brown to black, glabrous. <\/font>(flowers missing\u00a0in our collection)<\/font><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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<\/font>POWO<\/a>\u00a0 Catalogue of Life<\/a>\u00a0 <\/span>The Plant List Ver.1.1<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>IPNI<\/a>
\n\u00a0<\/span>GBIF<\/a> (High resolution specimens) Flora of\u00a0Karnataka<\/a>\u00a0
\n<\/span>India Biodiversity Portal<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Kerala plants<\/a>\u00a0 Wikimedia Commons<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>FRLHT<\/a>\u00a0(Specimen) Plant illustrations<\/a> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dillenia bracteata Wight, Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient. 2: t. 358 1840. (syn: Dillenia repanda Roxb.; Wormia bracteata (Wight) Hook.f. & Thomson) as per POWO; India (Tamil Nadu, Kerala) as per Catalogue of Life; Trees about 30-60 ft tall. Young shoots tomentose, branches with prominent leaf scars. Leaves simple, spirally arranged,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[5881],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1252129","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-dillenia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1252129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1252129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1252129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1252129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1252129"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1252129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}