{"id":1256769,"date":"2019-08-15T08:02:05","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T08:02:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-01-05T08:32:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T03:02:56","slug":"hovenia-acerba","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/efi\/hovenia-acerba\/","title":{"rendered":"Hovenia acerba"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hovenia<\/i> acerba<\/i> Lindl., Bot. Reg. 6: , pl. 501 1820<\/i>. (syn: Hovenia dulcis<\/i> var. acerba<\/i> (Lindl.) G. Sen Gupta & B. Safui; Hovenia inaequalis<\/i> DC.; Hovenia parviflora<\/i> Nakai & Y. Kimura; Zizyphus esquirolii<\/i> H. L\u00e9v.);<\/div>\n
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China (Anhui, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan), India (Punjab, Assam, Darjeeling, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Assam, Meghalaya, Tamil Nadu), Nepal, Bhutan,<\/span> Myanmar [Burma]<\/span> as per Catalogue of Life<\/span><\/a>;
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Small to large deciduous tree 10-25m;<\/span> branchlets pubescent, becoming glabrous. Leaves ovate or broadly ovate, 9-15 x 4-10cm, acuminate, base rounded or truncate often obliquely, margin sharply serrate, 3-veined at base, pubescent on veins beneath or glabrous; petiole 1.2-2cm; stipules minute, early caducous. Cymes terminal and in many upper leaf axils, 2-4cm diameter; penduncles pubescent, 1-4cm. Calyx lobes reflexed, triangular, c 1.5mm. Petals equalling sepals, concave, spathulate, spreading and enclosing stamens. Styles c 1.5mm, 3-lobed to middle. Fruit globose, 5-6mm, borne on swollen fleshy branched peduncles.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Fl. May-June<\/span><\/div>\n
Subtropical and warm broad-leaved forests.<\/span><\/div>\n
(Attributions- A.C.J Grierson & D.G Long. Flora of Bhutan. Published by RBGE. 1991 as per Bhutan Biodiversity Portal<\/span><\/a>)
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Re: ID pleae<\/a> : 3 posts by 1 author. Attachments (3<\/span>)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Is it Hovenia<\/i> sp.<\/div>\n
Locality – Nagaland<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Thanks, …, Was it cultivated or wild?<\/div>\n
To me appears close to Hovenia acerba<\/i> as per Flora of China<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 <\/span>FOC illustration<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 <\/span>GBIF<\/span><\/a> (high resolution specimens)\u00a0<\/span>FRLHT<\/span><\/a> \u00a0<\/span>tradewindsfruit<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 <\/span>libproject<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
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\nRequest ID of a Tree<\/a>\u00a0: 6 posts by 2 authors.\u00a0Attachments\u00a0(3)
\n<\/span>A tall tree (ht >20m) photographed in somewhat tropical area<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>of Meghalaya (about 600 msl).\u00a0<\/span>Tree with irregular-looking fruits.<\/span> Branched very far up, unreachable, therefore no close-ups obtained.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Appears to be some <\/span>Malvaceae<\/i> member.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Thanks \u2026\u00a0 <\/span>The fruits look like a lomentum, but the stalk is in the middle, giving the fruits a somewhat irregular Y-shaped appearance.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I think it will be <\/span>Grewia<\/i>\u00a0sp. (<\/span>Tiliaceae<\/i>).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Could you check for\u00a0Grewia<\/i> species?<\/p>\n

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Not yet. Will let you know when I get to it.<\/p>\n

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It is not of Grewia, which is for sure.
\nI am no expert though it appears to me like some Homalanthus<\/em> sp.
\nKindly check with some expert on <\/span>Euphorbeaceae.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Nationaal herbarium<\/a><\/p>\n

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As per this, none of the species mentioned in\u00a0the link<\/a>\u00a0is reported from India.
\nHomalanthus populneus<\/em> is mentioned in some references, but looks different as per\u00a0GBIF<\/a>.
\nCan it be some species of\u00a0<\/span>Excoecaria<\/span><\/a><\/em>\u00a0?<\/span><\/p>\n
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After your previous email, I had some checks and from the opinions I gathered, I could find the images looks close enough to be either Hovenia dulcis<\/em> or H. acerba<\/em>\u00a0of Rhamnaceae.<\/em><\/div>\n
Attaching the link from POWO by Kew here.<\/div>\n
POWO 1<\/a><\/div>\n
POWO2<\/a><\/div>\n
Kindly check both, and I must tell, it can be a different species from the genus Hovenia too.<\/div>\n
I am no expert.<\/div>\n
Kindly let me know too if any expert agrees to my thoughts on this.<\/div>\n
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A lively discussion on the tree. I have determined it to be\u00a0Hovenia acerba<\/em>, that is reported in Meghalaya.<\/p>\n

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Nepali Name :\u00a0\u092c\u093e\u0901\u0917\u0940 \u0915\u093e\u0920 Baangee Kaath<\/strong><\/p>\n

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References:
\n<\/span>Catalogue of Life<\/a>\u00a0 The Plant List Ver. 1.1<\/a> \u00a0World Flora Online<\/a>\u00a0 Tropicos<\/a> \u00a0IPNI<\/a>\u00a0Flora of China<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 FOC illustration<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 GBIF<\/span><\/a> (high resolution specimens)\u00a0FRLHT<\/span><\/a> \u00a0tradewindsfruit<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 libproject<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 POWO<\/a>\u00a0 India Biodiversity Portal<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Bhutan Biodiversity Portal<\/a>\u00a0 Flora of Peninsular India<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hovenia acerba Lindl., Bot. Reg. 6: , pl. 501 1820. (syn: Hovenia dulcis var. acerba (Lindl.) G. Sen Gupta & B. Safui; Hovenia inaequalis DC.; Hovenia parviflora Nakai & Y. Kimura; Zizyphus esquirolii H. L\u00e9v.); . China (Anhui, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[6029],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1256769","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-hovenia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1256769","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=1256769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1256769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1256769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1256769"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1256769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}