{"id":1340450,"date":"2016-07-25T06:23:16","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T06:23:16","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-24T12:08:42","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T06:38:42","slug":"ehretia-ovalifolia","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/efi\/ehretia-ovalifolia\/","title":{"rendered":"Ehretia ovalifolia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ehretia ovalifolia <\/i>Wight;<\/div>\n
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Small trees, branchlets lenticellate, terete. Leaves to 7 x 3.5 cm, oblong or elliptic, apex obtuse, nerves 6-8 pairs, pubescent in the nerve axils; petiole 1-1.5 cm; Corymbs terminal and axillary, 8-10 cm; flowers white, slightly pubescent; pedicel 1-2 mm; calyx tube to 1 mm, lobes 1 mm, pubescent; corolla rotate, tube 3 mm, lobes 2 mm; filaments 4 mm; ovary 4 celled; styles 2, fused to 3 mm<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Flowering and fruiting: August-November<\/span><\/div>\n
Scrub jungle and dry deciduous forests<\/span><\/div>\n
Peninsular India and Sri Lanka<\/span><\/div>\n
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(Attributions- Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi from India Biodiversity Portal<\/a>)
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Plant for id 030910MK1<\/a> : 13 posts by 9 authors. Attachments(7).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Kindly help to id this small tree. (Its more like a liane too).<\/div>\n
Could this be Ehretia<\/i> sp?<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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26-08-2010 \/ 01:00 PM<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Location- Place, Altitude, GP<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Moyar valley; ca. 300msl; TN<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Habitat- Garden\/ Urban\/ Wild\/ Type-<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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wild on scrub forest<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Plant Habit-<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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small tree<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Height\/Length-<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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3 -4 metre<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Leaves Type\/ Shape\/ Size-<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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ca.4 X 10cm; glabrous<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Inflorescence Type\/ Size-<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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terminal <\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Flowers Size\/ Colour\/ Calyx\/ Bracts-<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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ca. 0.8cm across; white<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Fruits Type\/ Shape\/ Size Seeds- <\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

not more than 1cm across; ripening black<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Yes the flowers are look like <\/span>Ehretia<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Is it Ehretia tinifolia <\/i>A. DC. ????<\/p>\n

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Definitely looks like Ehretia <\/i>species with its typical inflorescence ?scorpioid cyme.
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I think … is right. It does look like Ehretia tinifolia<\/i>. Please go through the link given below.
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…, this link is not working.
\nYet this species have not been reported from TN until now.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ehretia<\/i> sp.<\/div>\n
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May usuful some local available flora at species level id.<\/p>\n

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I think … is right, Copying the link below.
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I think it may be Ehretia ovalifolia<\/i> <\/span>Wight as per the following:
\n<\/span>http:\/\/www.plantgenera.org\/ILLUSTRATIONS\/<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
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For me it looks more like E. laevis<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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It is probably E. ovalifolia<\/i> Wight and matches with the illustration given by Wight in Icones Plantarum t. 1383. But there is a problem here. The name E. ovalifolia<\/i> Wight (1848) is a later homonym of E. ovalifolia<\/i> Hassk. (1843), a Malesian plant and hence illegitimate. Some recent authors consider Wight’s E. ovalfolia<\/i> as a synonym of the widespread Ehretia laevis<\/i> Roxb. Check with the descriptions given in Flora of British India Vol.4: 143 (E. ovalifolia<\/i>) & 142 (E<\/i>. laevis<\/i>).
\n<\/span>J.D. Hooker differentiates E. ovalifolia<\/i> from E. laevis<\/i> only by obtuse leaves.
\n<\/span>Needs further studies.<\/span><\/p>\n

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References:<\/div>\n
Catalogue of life<\/a>\u00a0 India Biodiversity Portal<\/a>\u00a0 Kerala Plants<\/a>\u00a0 PFAF<\/a>\u00a0 GBIF<\/a> specimens- one<\/a>, two<\/a> and three<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ehretia ovalifolia Wight; . Small trees, branchlets lenticellate, terete. Leaves to 7 x 3.5 cm, oblong or elliptic, apex obtuse, nerves 6-8 pairs, pubescent in the nerve axils; petiole 1-1.5 cm; Corymbs terminal and axillary, 8-10 cm; flowers white, slightly pubescent; pedicel 1-2 mm; calyx tube to 1 mm, lobes…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[5899],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1340450","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-ehretia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1340450","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=1340450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1340450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1340450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1340450"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1340450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}