Koilodepas calycinum
Bedd., Fl. Sylv. S. India 207, t. 320. 1872 & Forester's Man. 207.
1873; Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 419. 1887; Gamble, Fl. Madras 2(7): 1324. 1925 (repr. ed. 2: 926.
1957).
Tam.: Kattupira.
Small trees; young parts furfuraceous. Leaves lanceolate-oblong, rounded at base, dentate- serrate along margins, acuminate at apex, 4 – 18 x 1.5 – 6 cm, glabrous or sparsely stellate furfuraceous on major nerves beneath; lateral nerves 8 – 12 pairs; petioles 5 – 10 mm long. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, 7.5 - 14 cm long, usually branched. Male flowers: bracts subulate, ca 1 mm long; sepals 4 (- 5), deltoid-ovate, ca 2 x 3 mm; stamens 4 (- 5); filaments ca 2 mm long; anther-thecae oblong, ca 1.5 mm long. Female flowers: bracts subulate, ca 2 mm long; pedicels 5 – 8 m long; sepals 5 (- 8), orbicular-ovate, ca 4 x 3 mm; ovary subglobose, ca 2 mm across, hairy; styles 3, ca 5 mm long. Fruits subglobose, slightly depressed, ca 15 mm in diam., surrounded by membranous, broadly and irregularly lobed greatly enlarged calyx.
Fl. & Fr. Period unknown.
Distrib. India: Rare in Western Ghats up to 600 m altitude. Tamil Nadu (Tirunelveli and Kanniyakumari dists).
Endemic.
Small trees; young parts furfuraceous. Leaves lanceolate-oblong, rounded at base, dentate- serrate along margins, acuminate at apex, 4 – 18 x 1.5 – 6 cm, glabrous or sparsely stellate furfuraceous on major nerves beneath; lateral nerves 8 – 12 pairs; petioles 5 – 10 mm long. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, 7.5 - 14 cm long, usually branched. Male flowers: bracts subulate, ca 1 mm long; sepals 4 (- 5), deltoid-ovate, ca 2 x 3 mm; stamens 4 (- 5); filaments ca 2 mm long; anther-thecae oblong, ca 1.5 mm long. Female flowers: bracts subulate, ca 2 mm long; pedicels 5 – 8 m long; sepals 5 (- 8), orbicular-ovate, ca 4 x 3 mm; ovary subglobose, ca 2 mm across, hairy; styles 3, ca 5 mm long. Fruits subglobose, slightly depressed, ca 15 mm in diam., surrounded by membranous, broadly and irregularly lobed greatly enlarged calyx.
Fl. & Fr. Period unknown.
Distrib. India: Rare in Western Ghats up to 600 m altitude. Tamil Nadu (Tirunelveli and Kanniyakumari dists).
Endemic.
