{"id":1469184,"date":"2022-04-19T14:56:40","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T09:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/?p=1469184"},"modified":"2024-12-23T16:10:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T10:40:21","slug":"mastixia-arborea","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/efi\/mastixia-arborea\/","title":{"rendered":"Mastixia arborea"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mastixia arborea\u00a0<\/i>(Wight) C.B.Clarke, Fl. Brit. India 2: 745 1879<\/cite>. (syn: Bursinopetalum arboreum<\/em>\u00a0Wight<\/a>);
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\nS. India as per POWO<\/a>;
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Trees, to 25 m high,<\/span> bark pale brown, mottled with dark brown; lenticels up to 1.3 mm; outer bark 2-3 mm thick, shallowly fissured with white blotches outside; inner bark 10-15 mm thick; blaze yellow; exudation insignificant, black in course of time; branchlets subglabrous. Leaves simple, alternate, estipulate; petiole 10-30 mm, slender, grooved above, flattened, ferrugenous-villous when young; lamina 6-19 x 2-8 cm, elliptic, elliptic-oblong, elliptic-obovate or obovate, base attenuate or cuneate, apex acuminate, acumen twisted, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; lateral nerves 4-10 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae reticulate, faint; glands prominent on either side of midrib beneath. Flowers bisexual, yellowish-green, in terminal corymbose rusty tomentose panicles; lower bracts lanceolate, upto 5 mm, thick, subglabrous; bracteoles 2; calyx tube campanulate, pubescent, lobes 5, spreading, disc yellow, fleshy, shining, 4-5 lobed; petals 5, ovate, fleshy, with an apical notched but without median ridge, valvate; stamens 5, outside the disc, erect; filaments short; anther oblong-cordate; ovary inferior, adnate to the calyx tube, 1-celled; ovule 1, pendulous near the top of the cell; style short, cylindric. Fruit a drupe, cylindric-ovoid, 3.2 cm long, smooth, greenish-purple, persistent disc and sepals in conspicuous; seed ellipsoid.<\/span>
\nFlowering and fruiting: February-May<\/span>
\nShola and evergreen forests<\/span>
\nWestern Ghats<\/span>
\n(Attributions: Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi as per India Biodiversity Portal<\/a>)
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\n297 ID wild tree<\/a>: 11 images.
\nPlease ID wild tree, very rare,
\nLocation: near Reserve Forest, Chathamattom, Ernakulam District, (Kochi) Kerala PIN:686671<\/span>
\nAltitude: 1400fsl<\/span>
\nFlower date: 28.03.2022, 01.35pm<\/span>
\nHabitat: wild moisture, shady streamside<\/span>
\nPlant habit: tree, erect, branches, hard woody stem 45 inches circumference, rough bark, long lasting<\/span>
\nHeight: 09 meters<\/span>
\nLeaves: alternate, ovate, acute, soft glossy, size up to:12\u00d76cm<\/span>
\nFlower: pyramidal racemose, clustered, diameter:03mm, green, good fragrance<\/span>
\nFruit: drupe green, ovoid<\/span>
\nSeed:
\nCamera: CANON EOS1500D<\/p>\n

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Mastixia arborea<\/i>\u00a0(Wight) C.B.Clarke [Cornaceae<\/i>\/\u00a0Nyssaceae<\/i>].<\/p>\n

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Yes, it is\u00a0Mastixia arborea<\/i>, dear …, thank you very much for ID my plant<\/p>\n

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References:
\nPOWO<\/a> \u00a0Catalogue of Life<\/a>\u00a0 The Plant List Ver.1.1<\/a> \u00a0WCSP<\/a> \u00a0IPNI<\/a>\u00a0 GBIF<\/a> (High resolution specimens) Flora of peninsular India<\/a> Dinesh Valke\u2019s Flickr Post<\/a> \u00a0India Biodiversity Portal<\/a>\u00a0 Biotik<\/a>\u00a0 Wikipedia<\/a> \u00a0Wikimedia Commons<\/a> \u00a0FRLHT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mastixia arborea\u00a0(Wight) C.B.Clarke, Fl. Brit. India 2: 745 1879. (syn: Bursinopetalum arboreum\u00a0Wight); . S. India as per POWO; . Trees, to 25 m high, bark pale brown, mottled with dark brown; lenticels up to 1.3 mm; outer bark 2-3 mm thick, shallowly fissured with white blotches outside; inner bark 10-15…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[9811],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1469184","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-mastixia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1469184","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1469184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1469184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1469184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1469184"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1469184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}