Glochidion oblatum
Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 312. 1887; Kanjilal et al., Fl. Assam 4: 184.
1940, p. p.; Chakrab. & M.Gangop. in J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. 19: 221, f. 14. F - I. 1995.
Asm.: Gorumara.
Shrubs or trees, 2 - 8 m tall; branchlets tomentellous or appressed pubescent. Leaves oblong to elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, acute to obtuse or unequal at base, often somewhat incurved along margins on drying, acute and mucronate or apiculate to acuminate at apex, 3 - 12 x 1.5 - 4.5 cm, chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, sparsely puberulous on midrib to glabrous and glaucous above, sparsely pilose on midrib and lateral nerves to glabrous beneath; lateral nerves 5 - 9 pairs; petioles 2 - 4 mm long. Inflorescences 10 - 15-flowered. Male flowers: pedicels 1 - 2 cm long; sepals oblong, elliptic, oblanceolate to spathulate, 2 - 3.5 x 0.8 - 2 mm; anthers 3 - 4 (- 6), ca 2 mm long. Female flowers: pedicels 1 - 2 mm long; sepals oblong to ovate or linear, 1.5 - 2 x 0.5 - 1 mm; ovary subglobose or depressed, 1 - 2 mm in diam., 4 - 5-locular, villous; style columnar or occasionally conical, 1.3 - 2 x 0.8 - 1 mm; lobes 4 or 5, orbicular, ca 0.3 mm long. Fruits depressed-subglobose, 4 - 7 x 10 - 18 mm, unlobed or obscurely lobed, 4 or 5- locular, smooth, thin-walled, with 8 - 10 longitudinal grooves, indehiscent; pedicels 3 - 7 mm long.
Fl. & Fr. April - June; Nov. - Dec.
Distrib. India: Tropical forests, up to 900 m altitude. Sikkim, West Bengal, Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland and Mizoram.
Bhutan, ?Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand and China (Yunnan).
Shrubs or trees, 2 - 8 m tall; branchlets tomentellous or appressed pubescent. Leaves oblong to elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, acute to obtuse or unequal at base, often somewhat incurved along margins on drying, acute and mucronate or apiculate to acuminate at apex, 3 - 12 x 1.5 - 4.5 cm, chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, sparsely puberulous on midrib to glabrous and glaucous above, sparsely pilose on midrib and lateral nerves to glabrous beneath; lateral nerves 5 - 9 pairs; petioles 2 - 4 mm long. Inflorescences 10 - 15-flowered. Male flowers: pedicels 1 - 2 cm long; sepals oblong, elliptic, oblanceolate to spathulate, 2 - 3.5 x 0.8 - 2 mm; anthers 3 - 4 (- 6), ca 2 mm long. Female flowers: pedicels 1 - 2 mm long; sepals oblong to ovate or linear, 1.5 - 2 x 0.5 - 1 mm; ovary subglobose or depressed, 1 - 2 mm in diam., 4 - 5-locular, villous; style columnar or occasionally conical, 1.3 - 2 x 0.8 - 1 mm; lobes 4 or 5, orbicular, ca 0.3 mm long. Fruits depressed-subglobose, 4 - 7 x 10 - 18 mm, unlobed or obscurely lobed, 4 or 5- locular, smooth, thin-walled, with 8 - 10 longitudinal grooves, indehiscent; pedicels 3 - 7 mm long.
Fl. & Fr. April - June; Nov. - Dec.
Distrib. India: Tropical forests, up to 900 m altitude. Sikkim, West Bengal, Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland and Mizoram.
Bhutan, ?Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand and China (Yunnan).
