{"id":1422942,"date":"2015-12-23T05:45:02","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T05:45:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-24T18:25:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T12:55:00","slug":"cryptocarya-wightiana","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/efi\/cryptocarya-wightiana\/","title":{"rendered":"Cryptocarya wightiana"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cryptocarya<\/i> wightiana<\/i> Thwaites, Enum. Pl. Zeyl. 254 1861<\/em>. (Syn: Cryptocarya<\/i> bourdillonii<\/i> Gamble<\/span><\/font><\/span><\/a>; Cryptocarya<\/i> floribunda<\/i> Wight<\/span><\/font><\/span><\/a> [Illegitimate]; Cryptocarya<\/i> wightiana<\/i> var.<\/span> lanceolata<\/i> Meisn.<\/span><\/font><\/span><\/a>; Cryptocarya<\/i> wightiana<\/i> var.<\/span> parvifolia<\/i> Meisn.<\/span><\/font><\/span><\/a>);<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Habit- Trees up to 25 m tall.<\/font><\/div>\n

Trunk & Bark- Bark light brown, lenticellate.<\/font><\/div>\n
Branches and Branchlets- Branchlets terete, subglabrous.<\/font><\/div>\n
Leaves- Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; petiole 0.8-1.5 cm long, canaliculate above, subglabrous; lamina 8-25 x 3-11 cm, oblong sometimes elliptic-oblong, apex shortly acuminate with blunt tip, base rounded or acute, margin entire, coriaceous, glabrous, glaucous beneath; midrib canaliculate above; secondary nerves 7-13 pairs, prominent, nearly parallel to margin; tertiary nerves distantly percurrent, slender; higher order nerves finely reticulate.<\/font><\/div>\n
Inflorescence \/ Flower- Flowers in axillary or terminal lax panicle.<\/font><\/div>\n
Fruit and Seed- Drupaceous, globose, smooth, 1.5 cm across; seeds 1.<\/font><\/div>\n

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Common subcanopy trees in low elevation evergreen forests, up to 900 m sometimes locally extends up to 1200 m.<\/font> <\/div>\n

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India, Sri Lanka and Myanmar; Western Ghats- South and Central Sahyadris.<\/font><\/div>\n
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Evergreen trees found in Sri Lanka and South India, disjunct to Myanmar and Andaman Islands.<\/font><\/p>\n
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Cryptocarya wightiana Thwaites, Enum. Pl. Zeyl. 254 1861. (Syn: Cryptocarya bourdillonii Gamble; Cryptocarya floribunda Wight [Illegitimate]; Cryptocarya wightiana var. lanceolata Meisn.; Cryptocarya wightiana var. parvifolia Meisn.); Habit- Trees up to 25 m tall. Trunk & Bark- Bark light brown, lenticellate. Branches and Branchlets- Branchlets terete, subglabrous. Leaves- Leaves simple, alternate,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[6934],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1422942","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-cryptocarya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1422942","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=1422942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1422942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1422942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1422942"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1422942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}