Aspidocarya uvifera
Hook. f. & Thomson, Fl. Ind. 180. 1855 & in Fl. Brit. India 1:
95.1872.
Lep.: Myungarerrik.
Large evergreen twiners; young stems tomentose, otherwise pubescent, straight; branches slender, terete, longitudinally ribbed. Leaves broadly ovate, subpeltate, cordate, subsagittate to truncate at base, caudately tapering to an obtuse or fine point at apex, 9 - 17 x 6 - 14 cm, dark green and glabrous above, sparsely pilose along nerves beneath; basal nerves 5 (-7); lateral nerves 2 (-3) pairs; petioles 7 - 15 cm long, attached to base or 1 - 2 mm inside the margin of lamina, glabrescent or pubescent. Inflorescences slender Panicles, from axils of fallen leaves, up to 25 cm long; lateral branches of panicles 1 - 2 (-5) cm long, pubescent. Male flowers: pedicels 1 - 3 mm long, pubescent; sepals 6 - 12, greenish, ciliate; outer ones 3 - 6, green, narrow-elliptic, 2 - 2.5 mm long, puberulous; lilner ones 3 - 6, obovate to broadly elliptic, ca 3 mm long, yellow, glabrous; petals cuneate-obovate, concave with laterally inrolled edges and truncate apex, 2 - 2.5 x 1 mm, yellow; synandrium ca 2 mm long, on thick column. Female flowers: petals narrower; staminodes linear, club-shaped, ca 1.5 mm long. Infructescences 12 - 20 cm long. Drupes oblong-ovoid, flattened with longitudinal ridges when dry, glabrous; endocarps sparsely spinulose, ca 17 x 10 mm, with dorsal ridges forming an apical crest; ventral surface with 2 lateral irregular ridges; marginal wings notched along edges. Seeds oblong, flat.
Fl. Feb. - April; Fr. May - Aug.
Distrib. India: Subtropical warm forests, 500 - 1500 m. West Bengal, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Nagaland and Meghalaya.
Bhutan, Myanmar and S.W. China.
Notes. The fruits are edible.
Large evergreen twiners; young stems tomentose, otherwise pubescent, straight; branches slender, terete, longitudinally ribbed. Leaves broadly ovate, subpeltate, cordate, subsagittate to truncate at base, caudately tapering to an obtuse or fine point at apex, 9 - 17 x 6 - 14 cm, dark green and glabrous above, sparsely pilose along nerves beneath; basal nerves 5 (-7); lateral nerves 2 (-3) pairs; petioles 7 - 15 cm long, attached to base or 1 - 2 mm inside the margin of lamina, glabrescent or pubescent. Inflorescences slender Panicles, from axils of fallen leaves, up to 25 cm long; lateral branches of panicles 1 - 2 (-5) cm long, pubescent. Male flowers: pedicels 1 - 3 mm long, pubescent; sepals 6 - 12, greenish, ciliate; outer ones 3 - 6, green, narrow-elliptic, 2 - 2.5 mm long, puberulous; lilner ones 3 - 6, obovate to broadly elliptic, ca 3 mm long, yellow, glabrous; petals cuneate-obovate, concave with laterally inrolled edges and truncate apex, 2 - 2.5 x 1 mm, yellow; synandrium ca 2 mm long, on thick column. Female flowers: petals narrower; staminodes linear, club-shaped, ca 1.5 mm long. Infructescences 12 - 20 cm long. Drupes oblong-ovoid, flattened with longitudinal ridges when dry, glabrous; endocarps sparsely spinulose, ca 17 x 10 mm, with dorsal ridges forming an apical crest; ventral surface with 2 lateral irregular ridges; marginal wings notched along edges. Seeds oblong, flat.
Fl. Feb. - April; Fr. May - Aug.
Distrib. India: Subtropical warm forests, 500 - 1500 m. West Bengal, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Nagaland and Meghalaya.
Bhutan, Myanmar and S.W. China.
Notes. The fruits are edible.
