Glochidion hohenackeri
(Müll.Arg.) Bedd., Forester's Man. 193. 1873; Hook.f., Fl.
Brit. India 5: 314. 1887. Phyllanthus hohenackeri Müll.Arg. in Flora 48: 373. 1865 & in DC.,
Prodr. 15(2): 288. 1866. Bradelia sinica Gaertn., Fruct. Sem. Pl. 2: 127, t. 109, f. 1. 1790; Roxb., Fl.
Ind., ed. Carey 3: 700. 1832 (non Glochidion sinicum Hook. & Arn. 1837). Phyllanthus fagifolius
Müll.Arg., ll. cc. 373. 1865 & 288. 1866, p. p. tantum quoad Metz. (incl. var. concolor). Glochidion
fagifolium (Müll.Arg.) Miq. ex Bedd., l. c. 193. 1873; Hook.f., l. c. 312. 1887, p. p.; Gamble, Fl.
Madras 2(7): 1308. 1925 (repr. ed. 2: 915. 1957). G. sinicum sensu S.M.Almeida, Fl. Savantvadi
1: 387. 1990 (non Bradleia sinica Gaertn., 1790). G. hohenackeri (Müll.Arg.) Bedd. var.
kothayarense G.J.Jothi & V.S.Manickam in Indian J. Forest. 27(1): 41, f. 1. 2004, syn. nov.
Shrubs or trees, 1.5 - 12 m high; almost entirely glabrous or branchlets, leaves beneath,
petioles and flowers puberulous. Leaves elliptic, ovate to elliptic-oblong or elliptic-lanceolate,
sometimes oblique or subfalcate, acute, rounded or inequilateral at base, sometimes curling
upwards along margins on drying, apiculate to acuminate or caudate at apex, 5 - 15 x 1.5 - 6.5 cm,
thinly or occasionally stiffly coriaceous, often glaucous beneath; lateral nerves 3 - 10 pairs;
petioles 2 - 6 mm long. Inflorescences few-flowered (females) or many-flowered (males), sometimes
bisexual. Male flowers: pedicels capillary, 5 - 15 mm long; sepals narrowly oblong to spathulate,
2 - 5 x 1 - 2 mm; anthers 3 or 4, ca 2 mm long. Female flowers: few, sessile, in clusters; calyx
cupular or sometimes obconic, 1.5 - 3.5 x 2 - 3 mm, irregularly 4 - 6-toothed; teeth triangular,
deltoid or suborbicular, 0.4 - 1.2 mm long; ovary depressed, ca 0.5 x 1.5 - 2 mm, 3 - 5 (- 6)-locular,
tomentellous to glabrous; styles 3 - 5 (- 6), usually connate into a subglobose or discoid mass,
0.8 - 2 x 1.5 - 3 mm, often with minute projections at the corners, sometimes free or connate only
at base and then (each style) globose, deltoid or triangular, 0.6 - 1.2 x 0.8 - 1.2 mm. Fruits
depressed-subglobose, 2 - 5 x 6 - 12 mm, 3 - 5 (- 6)-locular, deeply 6 – 8-lobed with bilobulate
lobes, appressed puberulous to glabrous; pedicels absent or 0.5 - 4 x 0.5 - 1.2 mm.
KEY TO THE VARIETIES
| 1 a. Branchlets, leaves beneath, petioles and flowers glabrous | 10.1. hohenackeri |
| b. Branchlets, leaves beneath, petioles and flowers puberulous | 10.2. johnstonei |
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