Taxillus danserianus Rajasek. in J. Swamy Bot. Club 3(4): 157, ff. 1 - 2. 1986 (as 'danseriana').

Branches with cinnamomeous brown candelabra hairs mixed with stellate hairs when young, glabrous when old. Leaves opposite, sessile or subsessile, broadly elliptic-ovate, rounded at base, obtuse at apex, 3.2 - 3.8 x 1.5 - 3 cm, coriaceous, hairy when young, glabrous when old; lateral nerves 4 or 5 pairs. Inflorescences axillary, reduced dichasia; peduncle one in each axil, 2-flowered, 0.5 - 0.8 mm long, hairy; flower buds 1.2 - 1.4 cm long, covered with elongated candelabra hairs mixed with abietiform hairs, persistent throughout. Flowers sessile, 4-merous, 1.3 - 2 cm long; bracts 2 or 3, obovate, foliaceous. Calyculus indistinct. Petals 4, united; tube ventricose in middle, with median split almost up to base, 8 - 10 mm long; lobes 4, elliptic or spathulate, 4 - 5 mm long. Stamens 4, with flat filaments, 1.5 - 2 mm long; anthers linear- oblong, 1.3 - 1.6 mm long. Ovary turbinate, 2 - 2.5 mm long; style tetragonous; stigma subcapitate, bilobed, minutely papillate. Fruits not seen.

Fl. Oct. - Dec.

Distrib. India: Coastal forests. Goa.

Endemic.

Notes. Vessels with lateral perforations, pitting alternate; fibres very excessively thick- walled with or without narrow slit-like lumen, with vestigial pits or without pits.

Pollen 3-lobed; P - 22 (24.4) 25 µm; E - 35 (39.4) 44 µm; P/E - 0.6 1 µm; ex. 2 µm; col. 1 µm.