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\nSpecies as per Flora of India Vol 23<\/u> (Editors N. P. Balakrishnan, T. Chakrabarty, M. Sanjappa, P. Lakshminarsimhan & P. Singh- by Botanical Survey of India (2012)) (Distribution):
\nDrypetes andamanica<\/strong> (Kurz) Pax & K.Hoffm. (India: Semi evergreen or secondary forests, at low altitudes. Andaman Islands; Myanmar)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\nDrypetes assamica<\/strong> (Hook.f.) Pax & K.Hoffm. (India: Moist evergreen forests, primary forests, deciduous forests, subtropical forests, up to 1400 m altitude. Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Assam, Nagaland, Tripura, Mizoram, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh and Andaman Islands; Bhutan, Bangladesh, Thailand and Indo-China)<\/span><\/span>
\nDrypetes bhattacharyae<\/strong> Chakrab. (India: Littoral forests to inland forests along streamsides, on sandy or clayey soil; at low altitudes. Andaman & Nicobar Islands)<\/span><\/span>
\nDrypetes confertiflora<\/strong> (Hook.f.) Pax & K.Hoffm. (India: Evergreen rain forests, at low altitudes, very rare. Maharashtra and Karnataka (Coorg and N. Kanara Districts))<\/span><\/span>
\nDrypetes eglandulosa<\/strong> (Roxb.) Pax & K.Hoffm. (India: Very rare. Assam and Tripura)<\/span><\/span>
\nDrypetes ellisii<\/strong> S.P.Mathew & Chakrab. (India: Inland hill forests, at about 200 m altitude, rare. Andaman Islands)<\/span><\/span>
\nDrypetes gardneri<\/strong> (Thwaites) Pax & K.Hoffm. (India: Evergreen forests of southern parts of Western Ghats, at about 300 m altitude, rare. Tamil Nadu and Kerala; Sri Lanka<\/span>)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>
\nDrypetes indica<\/strong> (M\u00fcll.Arg.) Pax & K.Hoffm. (India: Primary forests or tropical forests, up to 1650 m altitude; scarce. West Bengal, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya; Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, China and Taiwan)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\nDrypetes leiocarpa<\/strong> (Kurz) Pax & K.Hoffm. in Engl.
\nDrypetes jaintensis<\/strong> (C.B.Clarke ex Brandis) Pax & K.Hoffm. (India: Primary forests, between 650 – 1100 m altitudes, very rare. Meghalaya)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\nDrypetes longifolia<\/strong> (Blume) Pax & K.Hoffm. (India: Inland evergreen forests, sandy loam, up to 100 m altitude. Andaman & Nicobar Islands; (?)Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand and throughout Malesia)<\/span><\/span>
\nDrypetes malabarica<\/strong> (Bedd.) Airy Shaw (India: Evergreen forests of southern Western Ghats, at 900 – 1500 m altitude, very rare. Kerala and Tamil Nadu (Tirunelveli District))<\/span><\/span>
\nDrypetes microphylla<\/strong> (Merr.) Pax & K.Hoffm. (India: Inland forests, at sea level, common. Nicobar Islands; Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo and Philippines)<\/span><\/span>
\nDrypetes oblongifolia<\/strong> (Bedd.) Airy Shaw (India: Evergreen forests of Western Ghats, often along streams and riverbanks, at 200 – 1500 m altitudes, scarce. Karnataka (Coorg), Kerala and Tamil Nadu; Borneo)<\/span><\/span>
\nDrypetes porteri<\/strong> (Gamble) Pax & K.Hoffm. (India: Primary forests, at 600 – 1750 m altitudes, very rare. Tamil Nadu)<\/span><\/span>
\nDrypetes sepiaria<\/strong> (Wight & Arn.) Pax & K.Hoffm. (India: Evergreen forests, up to 1000 m altitude, common. Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu; Sri Lanka)<\/span><\/span>
\nDrypetes subsessilis<\/strong> (Kurz) Pax & K.Hoffm. (In moist tropical and subtropical forests, at 500 – 1200 m altitude. (?)Assam, West Bengal (Gamble<\/i>\u00a06644A in K), Orissa (Gamble<\/i>\u00a02422B in K), ?Tamil Nadu (Indira Gandhi Wild Life Sanctuary in Anamalai hills, Coimbatore Dist. – see Ayyappan & Parthasarathy, l. c.) and Andaman Islands (Parkinson<\/i> 408 in K); Bhutan, Myanmar and Thailand)<\/span><\/span>
\nDrypetes sumatrana<\/strong> (Miq.) Pax & K.Hoffm. (India: Inland forests, at sea level, common. Nicobar Islands; Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand and Sumatra)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\nDrypetes ugandensis<\/strong> (Rendle) Hutch. (Cultivated)<\/span><\/div>\nDrypetes venusta<\/strong> (Wight) Pax & K.Hoffm. (India: Evergreen forests between 550 – 1500 m altitudes; common. Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\nDrypetes wightii<\/strong> (Hook.f.) Pax & K.Hoffm. (India: Evergreen forests, between 900 – 1550 m altitudes, rare. Kerala and Tamil Nadu (noted to be very common at or near Kodaikanal))<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\nKeys<\/u>:<\/span><\/div>\n1 a. Styles 2 – 3 mm long 8. D. indica <\/strong>(India: Primary forests or tropical forests, up to 1650 m altitude; scarce. West Bengal, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya; Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, China and Taiwan)<\/span>
\nb. Styles obsolete 2<\/strong>
\n2 a. Ovary and fruits 1-locular (unknown in D. porteri); leaves usually smaller (up to 16 cm long) 3<\/strong>
\nb. Ovary and fruits 2-locular; leaves various, often larger 10<\/strong>
\n3 a. Leaves stiffly coriaceous, broadly rounded or obtuse or retuse at apex; minor nerves bullately impressed; fruits globose or fusiform, 6 – 8 mm in diam., fleshy 16. D. sepiaria <\/strong>(India: Evergreen forests, up to 1000 m altitude, common. Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu; Sri Lanka)<\/span>
\nb. Leaves chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, acuminate or at least narrowing towards apex; minor nerves not bullately impressed; fruits not as above 4<\/strong>
\n4 a. Leaves crenulate-serrulate or denticulate along margins 5<\/strong>
\nb. Leaves entire along margins 7<\/strong>
\n5 a. Endocarp of fruits sculptured with strong spiniform outgrowths 18. D. sumatrana <\/strong>(India: Inland forests, at sea level, common. Nicobar Islands; Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand and Sumatra)<\/span>
\nb. Endocarp of fruits not sculptured 6<\/strong>
\n6 a. Fruits large, 16 – 18 x 10 – 13 mm, not flattened 1. D. andamanica <\/strong>(India: Semi evergreen or secondary forests, at low altitudes. Andaman Islands; Myanmar)<\/span>
\nb. Fruits small, ca 10 x 7 – 8 mm, often somewhat flattened 7. D. gardneri<\/strong> (India: Evergreen forests of southern parts of Western Ghats, at about 300 m altitude, rare. Tamil Nadu and Kerala; Sri Lanka<\/span>)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/div>\n7 a. Minor nerves of leaves finely reticulate, forming polygonal areoles, never branching into veins of higher order 8<\/strong>
\nb. Minor nerves of leaves not so finely reticulate, forming more or less squarish or rectangular areoles, often branching into veins of higher order 9<\/strong>
\n8 a. Leaves 11 – 16.5 cm long, glossy; petioles 3 – 6 mm long, pulvinate at apex, mostly geniculate 6. D. ellisii <\/strong>(India: Inland hill forests, at about 200 m altitude, rare. Andaman Islands)<\/span>
\nb. Leaves 5 – 9 cm long, not glossy; petioles 9 – 11 mm long, pulvinate at apex, mostly geniculate 15. D. porteri <\/strong>(India: Primary forests, at 600 – 1750 m altitudes, very rare. Tamil Nadu)<\/span>
\n9 a. Lateral nerves of leaves 6 – 9 pairs; male disc entire; female pedicels 4 – 5 mm long; fruiting pedicels 10 – 12 mm long; fruits mostly ovoid to ellipsoid, 1.7 – 2 cm long 20. D. wightii <\/strong>(India: Evergreen forests, between 900 – 1550 m altitudes, rare. Kerala and Tamil Nadu (noted to be very common at or near Kodaikanal))<\/span>
\nb. Lateral nerves of leaves 7 – 16 pairs; male disc lobulate; female pedicels 8 – 15 mm long; fruiting pedicels 20 – 26 mm long; fruits obovoid, 2 – 2.5 cm long 19. D. venusta <\/strong>(India: Evergreen forests between 550 – 1500 m altitudes; common. Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu)<\/span>
\n10 a. Inflorescences (at least partly) cauliflorous, on old wood 11<\/strong>
\nb. Inflorescences strictly axillary, on main leafy shoots 14<\/strong>
\n11 a. Midrib on upper surface of leaves clearly channeled or impressed 11. D. longifolia <\/strong>(India: Inland evergreen forests, sandy loam, up to 100 m altitude. Andaman & Nicobar Islands; (?)Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand and throughout Malesia)<\/span>
\nb. Midrib on upper surface of leaves flat 12<\/strong>
\n12 a. Branchlets and leaves pubescent; leaves entire; fruits small (2 – 2.5 cm in diam.), on 10 – 12 mm long pedicels 12. D. malabarica <\/strong>(India: Evergreen forests of southern Western Ghats, at 900 – 1500 m altitude, very rare. Kerala and Tamil Nadu (Tirunelveli District))<\/span>
\nb. Branchlets and leaves glabrous or glabrescent; leaves obscurely to prominently denticulate or serrulate along margins; fruits large (2.5 – 5 cm in diam.), sessile to subsessile 13<\/strong>
\n13 a. Glomerules of flowers coralliform; stamens 15 – 20; male disc shortly cupular and ribbed, with thin raised margins 4. D. confertiflora<\/strong> (India: Evergreen rain forests, at low altitudes, very rare. Maharashtra and Karnataka (Coorg and N. Kanara Districts))<\/span>
\nb. Glomerules of flowers not coralliform; stamens 30 – 40; male disc disciform, not ribbed 14. D. oblongifolia <\/strong>(India: Evergreen forests of Western Ghats, often along streams and riverbanks, at 200 – 1500 m altitudes, scarce. Karnataka (Coorg), Kerala and Tamil Nadu; Borneo)<\/span>