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Magnoliopsida
Syzygium grande (Wight) Walp.
EOL Text
"Maharashtra: Sindhudurg Kerala: Idukki, Thiruvananthapuram, Wynad Tamil Nadu: Nilgiri, Theni, Tirunelveli"
"Endemic to the Western Ghats- Agasthyamalai, Anamalai and Nilgiris."
Southern Western Ghats
"Evergreen trees, to 20 m high, bark dark brown, peeling off in small flakes; branchlets tetragonous. Leaves simple, opposite, estipulate; petiole 5-16 mm, stout, grooved above, glabrous; lamina 3-12.5 x 2.5-7.5 cm, elliptic, obovate or elliptic-obovate, base cuneate, apex obtuse or emarginate, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous, pellucid-dotted; lateral nerves many, parallel, slender, slightly distant, prominent, looped near the margin forming intramarginal nerve; intercostae reticulate, slender, faint. Flowers bisexual, 5 mm across, sessile, white, in axillary or terminal corymbose panicles, inflorescence branches stout; calyx tube 3 mm long, obconic; lobes 4; no thick disc; petals calyptrate; stamens many, bent inwards regularly middle in bud, filaments 5-6 mm long; ovary inferior, 2-celled; ovules many; style 1; stigma simple. Fruit a berry, 6-8 mm across, globose, purple, succulent, crowned by calyx limb."
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Habit
Trees up to 15 m tall.
Trunk & Bark
Bark grey, scaly; blaze cream.
Branches and branchlets
Branchlets stout, quadrangular and narrowly winged, glabrous.
Leaves
Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; petiole 0.4-1.2 cm long, canaliculate above, glabrous; lamina 6.5-12.5 x 3.3-7.5 cm, elliptic to broad elliptic or obovate, apex obtuse to rounded; base cuneate, margin entire, pellucid gland dotted, coriaceous, glabrous; midrib distinctly canaliculate above; intramarginal nerve present; secondary nerves ca. 12 pairs; tertiary nerves obscure.
Inflorescence / Flower
Flowers small in terminal corymbose cyme.
Fruit and Seed
Berry, globose, purple, 0.8 cm across, crowned with persistent calyx; seed one.
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Habit: Tree
Habitat and Ecology
Systems
- Terrestrial
License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
Rights holder/Author | International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources |
Source | http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/30877 |
Shola forests
Canopy trees in high elevation evergreen forests between 1400 and 2400.
Flowering and fruiting: February-May