{"id":1501343,"date":"2023-12-25T12:58:51","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T07:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/?p=1501343"},"modified":"2024-12-23T16:08:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T10:38:27","slug":"julostylis-angustifolia","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/efi\/julostylis-angustifolia\/","title":{"rendered":"Julostylis angustifolia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Julostylis angustifolia\u00a0<\/i>(Arn.) Thw., Enum. Pl. Zeyl.: 30 (1858)<\/em> (syn: Kydia angustifolia<\/em>\u00a0Arn.<\/a>);
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\nSW. India, Sri Lanka<\/span> as per POWO<\/a>;
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Trees, to 20 m,<\/span> bark yellowish-brown, smooth; branches drooping, slender, terete; young branches, peduncle and pedicel stellately rusty tomentose. Leaves simple, alternate, distichous, stipulate; stipules 4 mm long, linear, free, lateral, minutely pubescent, cauducous; petiole 5-12 mm long, slender, stellately tomentose; lamina 5-19 x 1-7 cm, lanceolate or oblong-acuminate, base obtuse, round or truncate, apex acute or acuminate, margin entire, sparsely stellate-tomentose above and densely stellate-tomentose beneath, coriaceous; 3-nerved at base, palmate, prominent; with a linear gland at the base of the midrib beneath, lateral nerves 4-5 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae scalariform, prominent. Flowers bisexual, yellow, in lax axillary and terminal pendulous panicles; pedicel 3-7 mm long, slender, stellate-tomentose; involucellar bracts 4, 8.5 \u00d7 6 mm, connate at base, broadly ovate, acute or subobtuse at apex, densely stellate-tomentose outside and sericeous inside; calyx 5-lobed, lobes 6 x 3 mm, much smaller than the involucellar bracts, accrescent, densely pubescent with minute stellate hairs; corolla yellowish with reddish center; petals 5, oblong or obovate, connate at base, minutely stellate-hairy externally; staminal tube 3.5 mm long, 5-toothed at apex, glabrous, staminiferous towards middle; anthers 10, reniform; filaments slender, 2.5 mm long, sparsely pubescent; ovary superior, ovoid, stellate-hairy, 2-3 locular, ovules 1-2 per locule; style 7 mm long, 2(-3) branched towards apices; stigma, peltate, minutely rugose. Fruit a capsule, 8 mm across, indehiscent, compressed-subglobose with a short beak at apex, completely enclosed within accrescent calyx, densely pubescent with minute stellate and simple hairs; seeds reniform, concentrically striated, brownish-black.<\/span>
\nFlowering and fruiting: October-January<\/span>
\nMoist deciduous and semi-evergreen forests<\/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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\n511 ID wild tree<\/a>: 21 high res. images.
\nPlease ID wild tree,
\nLocation: bloomed near Vannappuram Thodupuzha Idukki Kerala INDIA<\/span>
\nAltitude: 1500fsl<\/span>
\nFlower date: 04DEC2023, 05.10pm<\/span>
\nHabitat: wild moisture evergreen misty sloppy canopied alpine <\/span>
\nPlant habit: tree overgrown, erect branches, rusty branchlets, hard woody cylindrical stem 50 inches base circumference, rough puffed lite brown bark<\/span>
\nHeight: 15 meters<\/span>
\nLeaves: alternate elliptic acute simple rough, size upto: 12\u00d75cm, rusty petioles<\/span>
\nFlower: axillary\/terminal panicle inflorescence, diameter:20mm, purplish, fragrant, rusty peduncle<\/span>
\nFruit:
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\nCamera: CANON EOS1500D +FL10x<\/p>\n

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My first impression is\u00a0Malvaceae<\/i>. Probably\u00a0Julostylis angustifolia<\/i>\u00a0(Arn.) Thwaites.<\/p>\n

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Yes, it is very close to J. angustifolia<\/em>, thank you very much for ID my plant.\u00a0 I think it may be J. polyandra<\/em> which is reported from Western Ghats<\/p>\n

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\nAs per the attached key, your photographs correspond with\u00a0Julostylis angustifolia<\/i>\u00a0(Arn.) Thwaites. It is the only species of\u00a0Julostylis<\/i>\u00a0that has lanceolate leaves. It was reported from Idukki district in 1985.<\/div>\n
Attached are the line drawings of the three species of\u00a0Julostylis\u00a0<\/i>from the book ‘Malvaceae of Southern Peninsular India: A Taxonomic Monograph’ by V. V. Sivarajan & A. K. Pradeep, 1996. Also attached is a distribution map from an earlier paper by the cited authors, the publication details are mentioned in the file name.
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Yes, it is Julostylis angustifolia<\/em>. Thank you very much for sharing detailed information and identification of my plant with comparison chart of all Julostylis<\/em> sps.<\/p>\n

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References:
\nPOWO<\/a>\u00a0 Catalogue of Life<\/a>\u00a0 GBIF<\/a> (High resolution specimens) Flora of Sri Lanka<\/a>\u00a0 Flora of peninsular India<\/a> India Biodiversity Portal<\/a> \u00a0IBIS Flora<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Julostylis angustifolia\u00a0(Arn.) Thw., Enum. Pl. Zeyl.: 30 (1858) (syn: Kydia angustifolia\u00a0Arn.); . SW. India, Sri Lanka as per POWO; . Trees, to 20 m, bark yellowish-brown, smooth; branches drooping, slender, terete; young branches, peduncle and pedicel stellately rusty tomentose. Leaves simple, alternate, distichous, stipulate; stipules 4 mm long, linear, free,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[10019],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1501343","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-julostylis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1501343","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=1501343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1501343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1501343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1501343"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1501343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}