Phacellaria compressa
Benth. in Benth. & Hook.f., Gen. Pl. 3 (1): 229. 1880; Hook.f., Fl.
Brit. India 5: 235. 1886. P. wattii Hook.f., l. c. 236. 1886. P. ferruginea W.W.Sm. in Notes Roy. Bot.
Gard. Edinburgh 10: 188. 1918 (non Hand.-Mazz. 1929).
Semi-parasites, mostly dioecious, rarely with a few female flowers or bisexual flowers on
the male plants; stems up to 20 cm long, flattened; tender portions terete, up to 1 mm thick and
covered by broad acuminate imbricate bracts of ca 1 x 0.7 mm; prophylls none or indistinct.
Flowers: unisexual, each with a distinct involucre of numerous small bracteoles, the first few
flowers axillary, the following ones from the axils of bracteoles, inserted on a slight thickening of
the stem; bracts imbricate, ovate or obovate, ca 0.8 × 0.5 mm; bracteoles numerous, forming
involucre, small. Male flowers: sessile, depressed, up to 2 mm long; perianth obovoid, ca 2 x 1.5
mm; lobes 4 – 6, ; disc flat; stamens alternate with perianth-lobes; filaments flattened. Female
flowers: sessile; perianth-lobes 4 – 6; disc at the base, oblong, acuminate; ovary unilocular;
style short, fused with the disc; stigma truncate. Drupes ovoid, oblong-ovoid, ovoid-ellipsoid,
4 - 6 × 1.5 - 4 mm, glabrous, crowned by persistent perianth-lobes, glabrous.
Fl. & Fr. Feb. - June.
Distrib. India: Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur.
Myanmar, Thailand and China (Yunnan).
Fl. & Fr. Feb. - June.
Distrib. India: Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur.
Myanmar, Thailand and China (Yunnan).