Sloanea dasycarpa
(Benth.) Hemsley in Hook., Icon. Pl. 27: 2, t. 2628. 1901. Echinocarpus dasycarpus Benth. in J. Linn. Soc. 5. Suppl. 2: 73. 1861; Masters in Fl. Brit. India 1: 400. 1874.
Nep.: Gobria, Gobre.
Trees, 50 - 60 m tall; branchlets minutely hairy, often sulcate. Leaves usually crowded at tips of branchlets, 10 - 20 x 4 - 6.5 cm, elliptic-oblong, obovate or lanceolate, cuneate or rounded at base, acute or shortly acuminate at apex, serrulate or entire, venis prominent beneath, glabrous or with tufts of hairs in the axils of veins along midrib beneath, coriaceous; petioles 1 - 3.5 cm long, swollen at both ends, glabrous. Flowers yellowish-white, 1 - 3.5 cm across; axillary, solitary; pedicels 3 - 4.5 cm long, elongating in fruit, puberulous. Sepals 4, 7 - 8 mm long, unequal, broadly ovate to ovate-lanceolate or elliptic, tomentose outside. Petals 4, pale or creamy yellow, 10 - 12 mm long, obovate, variously cut at apex, pubescent. Stamens many; filaments 3.5 - 5 mm long, densely hairy; anthers 2 - 2.5 mm long, oblong, apiculate or shortly acuminate to acute, pubescent. Disc flattened, pitted. Ovary 2.5 - 3 mm long, ovoid, villous, 4-loculed; styles 4.5 - 7 mm long. Capsules ca 3 cm across, globose-ovoid, 4 - 5-valved, woody, covered with dense, short deciduous spines; spines 2 - 3 mm long. Seeds ca 6 mm long, oval, black, with red aril.
Fl. July - Nov.; Fr. Jan. - March.
Distrib. India: In moist evergreen forests between 1500 and 2000 m. West Bengal(Darjeeling), Sikkim, Assam, Meghalaya and Nagaland.
Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar and China(Yunan).
Notes. Wood used for planking and for making tea chests.
Trees, 50 - 60 m tall; branchlets minutely hairy, often sulcate. Leaves usually crowded at tips of branchlets, 10 - 20 x 4 - 6.5 cm, elliptic-oblong, obovate or lanceolate, cuneate or rounded at base, acute or shortly acuminate at apex, serrulate or entire, venis prominent beneath, glabrous or with tufts of hairs in the axils of veins along midrib beneath, coriaceous; petioles 1 - 3.5 cm long, swollen at both ends, glabrous. Flowers yellowish-white, 1 - 3.5 cm across; axillary, solitary; pedicels 3 - 4.5 cm long, elongating in fruit, puberulous. Sepals 4, 7 - 8 mm long, unequal, broadly ovate to ovate-lanceolate or elliptic, tomentose outside. Petals 4, pale or creamy yellow, 10 - 12 mm long, obovate, variously cut at apex, pubescent. Stamens many; filaments 3.5 - 5 mm long, densely hairy; anthers 2 - 2.5 mm long, oblong, apiculate or shortly acuminate to acute, pubescent. Disc flattened, pitted. Ovary 2.5 - 3 mm long, ovoid, villous, 4-loculed; styles 4.5 - 7 mm long. Capsules ca 3 cm across, globose-ovoid, 4 - 5-valved, woody, covered with dense, short deciduous spines; spines 2 - 3 mm long. Seeds ca 6 mm long, oval, black, with red aril.
Fl. July - Nov.; Fr. Jan. - March.
Distrib. India: In moist evergreen forests between 1500 and 2000 m. West Bengal(Darjeeling), Sikkim, Assam, Meghalaya and Nagaland.
Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar and China(Yunan).
Notes. Wood used for planking and for making tea chests.
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