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Meliosma henryi Diels ssp. mannii (Lace) Beus. in Blumea 19: 451. 1971. Meliosma mannii Lace in Kew Bull. 1915: 113. 1915.


Trees, up to 15 m tall; lenticells scattered on stems. Leaves ovate-oblong, sometimes oblong, 18 x 6 cm, apex acuminate to subacute, base acute or somewhat attenuate, upper surface shining, glabrous, sometimes with feeble domatia in the axils of nerves beneath; nerves 10 - 18 pairs; petioles slender. Panicles termtnal, 15 - 25 cm long. Flowers crowded, sessile or short pedicelled. Sepals 4, unequal, hairy. Petals glabrous, outer 3 orbicular, concave, 2.5 mm long, inner 2 lanceolate, entire, ca. 2 mm long. Ovary glabrous. Fruit a drupe. ovoid, 4 - 6 mm across.

Fl. & Fr. : June - July.

Distrib. India : Meghalaya.

China and N. Myanmar.




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