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Magnoliopsida
Dombeya
EOL Text
"Notes: Western Ghats, Cultivated, Native of Africa"
"Tamil Nadu: Dindigul, Nilgiri"
Distribution: Indigenous to Madagascar, introduced elsewhere.
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A shrub or small tree with cordate, serrate leaves. Inflorescence an axillary, drooping, 12-15 cm across, many-flowered umbellate cyme; peduncle more than 20 cm long, hairy. Flowers pink, c. 3 cm across; pedicel c. 4 cm long, hairy. Sepals linear-oblong, c. 1.5 cm long, c. 3-4 mm broad, densely patent hairy outside. Petals obovate, oblique, 2-2.5 cm long, 1-1.5 cm broad. Fertile stamens c. 1 cm long; staminodes c. 1.5 cm long. Carpels 5;ovary ovate-oblong, densely villous; stigma exserted. Capsule pentagonal, ovate-oblong, densely beset with rusty hairs, tipped by c. 2 cm long, persistent style.
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Habit: Large Shrub or Small Tree
Fl.Per.: April-May.
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Shrubs or trees. Stipules present. Leaves unlobed or palmately lobed, petiolate, palmately-nerved; indumentum of stellate hairs often mixed with simple or glandular hairs. Flowers in axillary or terminal cymes or umbellate cymes, bisexual, white, pink or purplish. Bracts usually 3, caducous. Calyx of 5 lobes, reflexed in mature flowers. Petals 5, persistent and becoming papery or scarious in fruit. Staminodes 5, conspicuous. Ovary 3-5-locular. Fruit a dehiscent, ovoid or spherical, capsule.
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A beautiful shrub grown in Sind gardens for its drooping clusters of pink flowers.
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Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) Stats
Specimen Records:34
Specimens with Sequences:49
Specimens with Barcodes:47
Species:15
Species With Barcodes:14
Public Records:14
Public Species:9
Public BINs:0