Glochidion candolleanum
(Wight & Arn.) Chakrab. & M.Gangop. in J. Econ. Taxon.
Bot. 19: 191, f. 10. E - I. 1995. Lobocarpus candolleanus Wight & Arn., Prodr. Fl. Ind. Orient. 1:
7. 1834. Glochidion neilgherrense Wight, Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient. 5(2): 29. 1852; Hook.f., Fl. Brit.
India 5: 316. 1887; Gamble, Fl. Madras 2(7): 1307. 1925 (repr. ed. 2: 914. 1957). G. arboreum Wight,
l. c. 29, t. 1907. 1852; Hook.f., l. c. 316. 1887; Gamble, l. c. 1307. 1925, p. p. Phyllanthus neilgherrensis (Wight) Müll.Arg. in Flora 48: 385. 1865 & in DC., Prodr. 15(2): 303. 1866. P. pycnocarpus
Müll.Arg., l. c. 386. 1865 & l. c. 304. 1866. Glochidion pycnocarpum (Müll.Arg.) Bedd., Forester's
Man. 194. 1873; Hook.f., l. c. 315. 1887. Phyllanthus arboreus (Wight) Müll.Arg., l l. c c. 380.
1865 & 303. 1866. P. perrottetianus Müll.Arg. in Flora 48: 386. 1865 & in DC., Prodr. 15(2): 307.
1866. Glochidion perrottetianum (Müll.Arg.) Bedd., l. c., 194. 1873. G. pauciflorum Gamble, l.
c. 1307. 1925. G. sisparaense Gamble, l. c. 1307. 1925.
Kan.: Banavara; Badaga of Nilgiris: Hunikay.
Trees, 3 - 12 m tall, often entirely glabrous; branchlets sometimes-scattered tawny puberulous. Leaves elliptic, oblong-elliptic, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate or subfalcate, acute to rounded or often unequal at base, often curling upwards along margins on drying, acute, apiculate, attenuate to acuminate at apex, 5 - 14 x 2 - 6 cm, thinly or stiffly coriaceous, glabrous, sometimes glaucescent above; lateral nerves 4 - 9 pairs; petioles 2 - 7 mm long. Inflorescences few to many-flowered. Male flowers: pedicels 4 - 10 mm long; sepals oblong, elliptic to obovate, 2 - 4 x 1 - 2 mm; anthers 3, 1.5 - 2 mm long. Female flowers: sessile or pedicelled (pedicels up to 2 mm long); calyx usually campanulate, sometimes cupular, 1 - 4 x 1.5 - 4 mm, often sparsely appressed puberulous outside towards base, irregularly and shallowly to deeply 4 - 6-toothed; teeth of various shapes, 0.3 - 1.8 x 0.3 - 1.5 mm; ovary subglobose, 1 - 1.5 mm in diam., (3 -) 4 - 6- locular, tomentellous to glabrous; style clavate, turbinate or obconic, 1.5 - 3 x 1 -3 mm; lobes (3 -) 4 - 6, ovate, oblong, triangular or suborbicular, 0.5 - 1.3 mm long, stout, connivent, erect or spreading. Fruits sessile or on up to 2 mm long pedicels, depressed-subglobose, 4.5 - 9 x 8 - 17 mm, (3 -) 4 - 6-locular, deeply lobed with the lobes rounded to bilobulate.
Fl. & Fr. Jan. - Oct.
Sri Lanka.
Distrib. India: Mixed forests or sholas, at 600 - 2150 m altitudes, very common. Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
Sri Lanka.
Trees, 3 - 12 m tall, often entirely glabrous; branchlets sometimes-scattered tawny puberulous. Leaves elliptic, oblong-elliptic, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate or subfalcate, acute to rounded or often unequal at base, often curling upwards along margins on drying, acute, apiculate, attenuate to acuminate at apex, 5 - 14 x 2 - 6 cm, thinly or stiffly coriaceous, glabrous, sometimes glaucescent above; lateral nerves 4 - 9 pairs; petioles 2 - 7 mm long. Inflorescences few to many-flowered. Male flowers: pedicels 4 - 10 mm long; sepals oblong, elliptic to obovate, 2 - 4 x 1 - 2 mm; anthers 3, 1.5 - 2 mm long. Female flowers: sessile or pedicelled (pedicels up to 2 mm long); calyx usually campanulate, sometimes cupular, 1 - 4 x 1.5 - 4 mm, often sparsely appressed puberulous outside towards base, irregularly and shallowly to deeply 4 - 6-toothed; teeth of various shapes, 0.3 - 1.8 x 0.3 - 1.5 mm; ovary subglobose, 1 - 1.5 mm in diam., (3 -) 4 - 6- locular, tomentellous to glabrous; style clavate, turbinate or obconic, 1.5 - 3 x 1 -3 mm; lobes (3 -) 4 - 6, ovate, oblong, triangular or suborbicular, 0.5 - 1.3 mm long, stout, connivent, erect or spreading. Fruits sessile or on up to 2 mm long pedicels, depressed-subglobose, 4.5 - 9 x 8 - 17 mm, (3 -) 4 - 6-locular, deeply lobed with the lobes rounded to bilobulate.
Fl. & Fr. Jan. - Oct.
Sri Lanka.
Distrib. India: Mixed forests or sholas, at 600 - 2150 m altitudes, very common. Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
Sri Lanka.
