{"id":1418519,"date":"2018-01-18T12:02:19","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T12:02:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-24T12:08:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T06:38:29","slug":"homalium-tomentosum","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/efi\/homalium-tomentosum\/","title":{"rendered":"Homalium tomentosum"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Homalium tomentosum\u00a0<\/i>(Vent.) Benth., J. Proc. Linn. Soc., Bot. 4: 34 1860<\/cite>. (syn: Blakwellia propinqua<\/em> Wall.<\/a>; Blakwellia spiralis<\/em> Wall.<\/a>; Blakwellia tomentosa<\/em> Vent.<\/a>; Homalium propinquum<\/em>\u00a0C.B.Clarke<\/a>);<\/div>\n
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E. India to W. Malesia: Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Myanmar, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam<\/span> as per POWO<\/a>;
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\nCommon name:<\/b>\u00a0Burma Lancewood, Moulmein lancewood
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Deciduous trees, about 20-40 m tall.<\/span> Bark pale grayish brown, showing green epidermis beneath, with irregular flakes peeling, buttressed near the trunk base, branchlets and young twigs tomentose. Leaves simple, alternate, obovate-oblong, obovate-elliptic, about 10-25 x 5-13.5 cm across, base cuneate to rounded, margin shallow or distinctly crenate, apex deeply acute to shallow acuminate, lateral veins 8-12 on either side of the midrib, impressed above and prominent on midrib beneath, minutely tomentose to glabrescent above, minutely pubescent to wooly tomentose beneath, end in a gland beneath at each teeth of the margin, veinlets reticulate, petiole thick, about 3-8 mm long, stipules caducous. Inflorescence in shortly pedunculate, pendulous, subterminal and axillary racemes spikes or lax glomerules, ferruginous tomentose, about 10-30 cm long. Flowers greenish white, foetid or disagreeable odour, bisexual, epigynous, hypanthium funnel shaped, wooly tomentose, about 2 mm long in fruits, pedicels articulate in below, bracts ovate, caducous, sepals 5-6, linear oblong, margin ciliate, with densely hairy episepalous nectar gland opposite to every sepal, accrescent after anthesis, tomentose, about 1.25 mm long, petals 5-6, spathulate, almost same size as sepals, inserted in the rim of the calyx tube. Stamens before each petals, alternating with nectar glands, filaments about 2 mm long, anthers 2 loculed, globular, dorsifixed, extrorse, pollen tricolporate. Ovary semi-inferior, globose, unilocular, minutely appressed hairy inside, densely wooly tomentose outside, styles 3. Fruit indehiscent, subglobose-ovoid, about 2 mm long. Seed 1.<\/span>
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(Attributions- <\/span>Ganeshaiah, K. N., UAS, Bangalore, India.; Kailash, B. R., ATREE, Bangalore, India.; Royal Norwegian Embassy grants. Indian Bioresource Information Network (IBIN), Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi, India as per India Biodiversity Portal<\/a>)<\/span>
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\nMedium-sized tree for Identification from Patiala, Punjab-December 2017::NS02<\/a> : 14 posts by 5 authors. Attachments (6)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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This medium-sized tree was recorded from campus <\/span>of Punjabi University, <\/span>Patiala, Punjab in September 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

To me this looks to belong to Anacardiaceae<\/em>, please suggest correct id..<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Never seen before\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Pl. check <\/span>\/species\/a—l\/a\/anacardiaceae<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Could not find a match as per comparative images at <\/span>\/species\/a—l\/a\/anacardiaceae<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I think, Bridelia<\/em> sp.<\/p>\n

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Looks to me like Casearia graveolens (Salicaceae)<\/i><\/p>\n

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Not sure. The flowers don’t quite match C. graveolens<\/i> as I know it<\/p>\n

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Thanks …, My first impression of the plant was Bridelia<\/em>, until I closely observed the flowers… and this is not like Casearia<\/em> too..<\/div>\n
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Hope to get a lead soon..!!<\/p>\n

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Please check for Bridelia ferruginea<\/em>.\u00a0Only a suggestion<\/div>\n
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Thanks a lot …, for your valuable suggestion, yes it superficially resembles to what you suggested, bu flowers seem to differ..<\/div>\n
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Unable to help you with this one.<\/p>\n

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Possibly Celastraceae<\/em> member.<\/p>\n

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This is Homalium bhamoense<\/em> (syn. H. tomentosum)<\/em>. Family Flacourtiaceae.<\/em> See “Vascular
\nFlora of Punjab and Chandigarh” by M. Sharma. vol. 1:216.2021.In a separate e mail,
\nsending the brochure of the book.<\/p>\n
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This is a species of Homalium<\/em><\/p>\n

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Thanks, …\u00a0Identified as Homalium bhamoense<\/em> (syn. H. tomentosum<\/em>).<\/p>\n

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I guess correct ID would be\u00a0Homalium tomentosum (Vent.) Benth.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Homalium tomentosum (Vent.) Benth<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Homalium tomentosum (Vent.) Benth.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Going through\u00a0POWO<\/a>, it appears to be\u00a0H. tomentosum<\/b>\u00a0(Vent.) Benth.\u00a0rather than\u00a0Homalium ceylanicum<\/b><\/a>\u00a0(Gardner) Benth. (syn:\u00a0Homalium bhamoense<\/i>\u00a0Cubitt & W. W. Smith) as per\u00a0POWO<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Yes … and thank you for validation !<\/p>\n

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References: POWO<\/a> \u00a0Catalogue of Life<\/a>\u00a0 The Plant List Ver.1.1<\/a> \u00a0IPNI<\/a>\u00a0 GBIF<\/a> (High resolution specimens) Flora of peninsular India<\/a> \u00a0Flowers of India<\/a>\u00a0 India Biodiversity Portal<\/a> \u00a0Wikimedia Commons<\/a>\u00a0 tropicaltimber<\/a> \u00a0Useful Tropical Plants<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Homalium tomentosum\u00a0(Vent.) Benth., J. Proc. Linn. Soc., Bot. 4: 34 1860. (syn: Blakwellia propinqua Wall.; Blakwellia spiralis Wall.; Blakwellia tomentosa Vent.; Homalium propinquum\u00a0C.B.Clarke); . E. India to W. Malesia: Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Myanmar, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam as per POWO; . Common name:\u00a0Burma Lancewood, Moulmein…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[5503],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1418519","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-homalium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1418519","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=1418519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1418519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1418519"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1418519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}