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Vatica chinensis
Vatica chinensis tree in Edappally, Kochi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
(unranked):
Angiosperms
(unranked):
Eudicots
(unranked):
Rosids
Order:
Malvales
Family:
Dipterocarpaceae
Genus:
Vatica
Species:
V. chinensis
Binomial name
Vatica chinensis
Linn

Vatica chinensis is a species of plant in the Dipterocarpaceae family.

It is found in India and Sri Lanka.

Description

Evergreen trees, to 25 m high, bole buttressed; bark pale green, smooth; exudation resinous; young shoots, buds, outside of perianth exposed in bud, lepidote. Leaves simple, alternate; stipules small, fugacious; petiole 20–50 mm long, stout, glabrous; lamina 9-25 x 3–11 cm, ovate or oblong, base obtuse or broadly cuneate, apex obtusely acute, margin entire, coriaceous, glabrous; lateral nerves 10-14 pairs, parallel, prominent, intercostae scalariform, prominent. Flowers bisexual, white, in axillary spreading panicles; pedicels 5-ribbed; ribs alternating with sepals; calyx tube very short, adnate to the base of the ovary; lobes 5, ovoid-deltoid, acute, pubescent; petals 5, white, oblong; stamens 15 in 2 rows; filaments short, flattened at base; anthers oblong, shortly apiculate; ovary superior, covered with large shallow pits, lepidote, 3-celled, ovules 2 in each cell; style about as long as ovary, ribbed; stigmas densely papillose, obscurely 3-lobed. Fruit a capsule, lepidote, subglobose shortly pointed with 3 obscure, loculicidal furrows, puberulous; pericarp coriaceous; calyx persistent.[1]

Vatica chinensis fruit
Vatica chinensis flower
Vatica chinensis leaf

References

  1. ^ Description given by Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi. Taken from India biodiversity portal - http://treesindia.in/species/show/262289

Sources

  • Template:IUCN2013.2
  • Vatica chinensis L., Mant. Pl. 2: 242. 1771; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 84(61). 1915; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 84. 1984; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 42. 1982; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 53. 1990; K.P. Janardh. in B.D. Sharma & Sanjappa, Fl. India 3: 248. 1993; K.P. Janardh. & W. Arisdason in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 373. 2005; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 113. 2009.
  • Vateria roxburghiana Wight ex Arn., Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 1, 3: 155. 1839.
  • Vatica roxburghiana (Wight) Blume, Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 2: 31, t.1849; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 302. 1874.
  • Flora of Karnataka, Sharma B. D, 1984, Biodiversity Documentation for Kerala Part 6: Flowering Plants, N. Sasidharan, 2004
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