{"id":1314381,"date":"2018-06-14T06:20:49","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T06:20:49","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-24T12:06:10","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T06:36:10","slug":"chionanthus-zeylanicus","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/efi\/chionanthus-zeylanicus\/","title":{"rendered":"Chionanthus zeylanicus"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chionanthus<\/i> zeylanicus<\/i> L., Sp. Pl. 8 1753<\/i>. (syn: Chionanthus<\/i> dichotomus<\/i> Roxb.<\/font><\/a>; Chionanthus<\/i> zeylanicus<\/i> var. dichotomus<\/i> (Roxb.) Bahadur & R.C.Gaur<\/font><\/a>; Linociera<\/i> dichotoma<\/i> (Roxb.) Wall. ex DC.<\/font><\/a>; Linociera<\/i> purpurea<\/i> var. dichotoma<\/i> Wall. ex C.B.Clarke<\/font><\/a>; Linociera<\/i> zeylanica<\/i> (L.) Gamble<\/font><\/a>);<\/div>\n
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Habit- Trees up to 10 m tall.<\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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Trunk\\bark- Bark greyish, scaly; blaze cream.<\/font><\/div>\n
Branchlets- Branchlets terete, lenticellate, glabrous.<\/font><\/div>\n
Leaves- Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; petiole up to 0.7 cm long, planoconvex to slightly canaliculate when dry, glabrous; lamina 4-7 x 1.5-3 cm, obovate or oblanceolate, apex obtuse, base cuneate to atteunate, margin entire, glabrous beneath, coriaceous; midrib raised above; secondary nerves up to 7 pairs, obscure or visible when dry; tertiary nerves obscure.<\/font><\/div>\n
Flowers- Inflorescence axillary racemes; flowers white.<\/font><\/div>\n
Fruit & seed- Drupe; seed one.<\/font><\/div>\n

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Trees in disturbed or semi-evergreen forests between 800 and 1200 m. <\/font><\/div>\n
South India and Sri Lanka; in the Western Ghats- South Sahyadri.<\/font> <\/div>\n
(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<\/font><\/a>)<\/div>\n
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Chionanthus zeylanicus<\/a> : 1 post by 1 author. 4 images- around 600 kb each.<\/div>\n

I wish to add Choinanthus zeylanicus<\/i> to efi\u00a0 <\/div>\n
Plant name: Chionanthus\u00a0zeylanicus<\/i>\u00a0L., Sp. Pl. 8. 1753.<\/i><\/font><\/div>\n
Ver.name:<\/span><\/b> Verri pogada (Tel.). <\/span><\/font><\/div>\n
Family:<\/span><\/b> Oleaceae<\/i><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n

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Deciduous trees, 5-10 m tall; bark greyish-black, fissured; branchlets minutely hairy. Leaves opposite; petiole 5-10 mm; lamina 4.5-12 \u00d7 3-5.5 cm, obovate, base cuneate, apex obtuse or emarginate, margin entire; glabrous, coriaceous. Flowers 4-merous, creamy white, 5-6mm across, in 3-5cm long, axillary panicles. Calyx lobes small, 4 teethed, tawny-pubescent. Corolla lobes 4, tubular, thick, basally connate, lanceolate. Stamens 2, included, filaments short, attached at the base of corolla; anthers lanceolate. G(2)<\/u> ;ovary\u00a0 2-celled, glabrous, 2 pendulous ovules in each locule; style short, included. Drupe 6 \u00d7 4 mm, obovoid, blackish-purple at maturity, bitter.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

Habitat& location:<\/span><\/b> Common in dry deciduous forests. Photographed at Rapur ghat.<\/font><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

Flowering period:<\/span><\/b> March- June.<\/font><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

Medicinal Uses<\/span><\/b>:<\/span><\/b> <\/span>The root bark is used as antidote for snakebite by local tribals<\/font>.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Chionanthus sp.?<\/a> : 7 posts by 2 authors. Attachments<\/span> (2)<\/font><\/span> <\/span><\/div>\n

Found in Mannur RF, Aug.<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/div>\n
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Would it be possible to get more information about habit habitat and date in which photo taken.<\/p>\n

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Habit: Woody shrub around 2 metres.<\/font><\/p>\n

Habitat: Dry Evergreen forest near Chennai<\/font><\/div>\n
Date:\u00a0August\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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yes it looks like Choinanthes zeylanica<\/i><\/div>\n
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For me this one looks like C.zeylanicus<\/i>, based on the leaves and fruits shape.<\/div>\n
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<\/font>Catalogue of Life<\/a>\u00a0 The Plant List Ver.1.1<\/a> \u00a0WCSP<\/a> \u00a0IPNI<\/a>
\n\u00a0POWO<\/a>\u00a0 India Biodiversity Portal<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Biotik<\/a> Wikipedia<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Pitchandikulam Forest Virtual Herbarium<\/a>\u00a0 plantekey<\/a><\/font><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chionanthus zeylanicus L., Sp. Pl. 8 1753. (syn: Chionanthus dichotomus Roxb.; Chionanthus zeylanicus var. dichotomus (Roxb.) Bahadur & R.C.Gaur; Linociera dichotoma (Roxb.) Wall. ex DC.; Linociera purpurea var. dichotoma Wall. ex C.B.Clarke; Linociera zeylanica (L.) Gamble); India, Sri Lanka as per WCSP; Habit- Trees up to 10 m tall. Trunk\\bark-…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[5644],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1314381","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-chionanthus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1314381","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=1314381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1314381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1314381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1314381"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1314381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}