Drypetes venusta
(Wight) Pax & K.Hoffm. in Engl., Pflanzenr. IV.147.xv (heft 81): 268.
1922; Chakrab. et al. in J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. 21: 277. 1997. Astylis venusta Wight, Icon. Pl. Ind.
Orient. 6: 13, t. 1992. 1853. Hemicyclia venusta (Wight) Thwaites in Hooker's J. Bot. Kew Gard.
Misc. 7: 272. 1855; Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 339. 1887; T. Cooke, Fl. Bombay 2(3): 591. 1906;
Gamble, Fl. Madras 2(7): 1300. 1925 (repr. ed. 2: 909. 1957). H. elata Bedd., Fl. Sylv. S. India 2: t.
279. 1872 & Forester's Man. 198. 1873; Hook.f., l. c. 339. 1887; Gamble, l. c. 1300. 1925. Drypetes
elata (Bedd.) Pax & K.Hoffm., l. c. 268. 1922.
Mal.: Konamaram, Palakani, Velleipuli; Tam.: Palla-kanni, Vellelambu.
Trees, 10 - 30 m tall; branchlets drooping, glabrous. Leaves elliptic, oblong-elliptic to obovate, unequal or acute at base, entire along margins, acuminate or sometimes acute to subacute at apex, 4 - 15 x 1.5 - 5.5 cm, thinly coriaceous, glabrous; lateral nerves 7 - 16 pairs; areoles squarish or rectangular; petioles 3 - 10 mm long, glabrous. Inflorescences axillary. Male flowers: pedicels 3 - 20 mm long; sepals 4, elliptic-oblong, obovate to suborbicular, 2 - 4 x 1.5 - 3 mm; stamens (5 -) 6 - 10 (- 12), 1.5 - 2.5 mm long; anthers oblong, ca 1 mm long; disc lobulate, puberulous. Female flowers: pedicels 8 - 15 mm long; sepals 4, ovate or obovate, 3 - 4 x 1.8 - 3.5 mm; ovary oblong, ovoid or obovoid, 2 - 3 x ca 1.8 mm, glabrous, 1 (- 2)-locular; stigma 1, terminal, flabellate, orbicular or reniform, 1 - 1.5 mm across. Fruits drooping on 2 - 4 (- 6) cm long slender elongated pedicels, obovoid, 20 - 25 x 12 - 18 mm, smooth, 1-locular, glabrous, rarely appendiculate; seed solitary.
Fl. & Fr. Nov. - July.
Distrib. India: Evergreen forests between 550 - 1500 m altitudes; common. Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
Endemic.
Notes. Pollen 3-colporate, sexine reticulate. P = 40 ìm (35 to 45), E = 31 ìm (29 to 45). (D. elata, See Tissot, Chikki & Nayar, Pollen of Wet Evergreen Forests of Western Ghats, India. Publ. du depart. D’ecologie, Inst. Francias de Pondichery, Pondicherry).
Trees, 10 - 30 m tall; branchlets drooping, glabrous. Leaves elliptic, oblong-elliptic to obovate, unequal or acute at base, entire along margins, acuminate or sometimes acute to subacute at apex, 4 - 15 x 1.5 - 5.5 cm, thinly coriaceous, glabrous; lateral nerves 7 - 16 pairs; areoles squarish or rectangular; petioles 3 - 10 mm long, glabrous. Inflorescences axillary. Male flowers: pedicels 3 - 20 mm long; sepals 4, elliptic-oblong, obovate to suborbicular, 2 - 4 x 1.5 - 3 mm; stamens (5 -) 6 - 10 (- 12), 1.5 - 2.5 mm long; anthers oblong, ca 1 mm long; disc lobulate, puberulous. Female flowers: pedicels 8 - 15 mm long; sepals 4, ovate or obovate, 3 - 4 x 1.8 - 3.5 mm; ovary oblong, ovoid or obovoid, 2 - 3 x ca 1.8 mm, glabrous, 1 (- 2)-locular; stigma 1, terminal, flabellate, orbicular or reniform, 1 - 1.5 mm across. Fruits drooping on 2 - 4 (- 6) cm long slender elongated pedicels, obovoid, 20 - 25 x 12 - 18 mm, smooth, 1-locular, glabrous, rarely appendiculate; seed solitary.
Fl. & Fr. Nov. - July.
Distrib. India: Evergreen forests between 550 - 1500 m altitudes; common. Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
Endemic.
Notes. Pollen 3-colporate, sexine reticulate. P = 40 ìm (35 to 45), E = 31 ìm (29 to 45). (D. elata, See Tissot, Chikki & Nayar, Pollen of Wet Evergreen Forests of Western Ghats, India. Publ. du depart. D’ecologie, Inst. Francias de Pondichery, Pondicherry).
