Aphanamixis polystachya (Wall.) Parker - MELIACEAE

Synonym : Aglaia polystachya Wall. & Amoora rohituka (Roxb.) Wt. & Arn.

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Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literatures

Botanical descriptions :

Habit : Trees up to 20 m tall.
Trunk & Bark : Bark grey, fissured; blaze cream.
Branches and Branchlets : Branchlets terete, glabrous.
Leaves : Leaves compound, imparipinnate, alternate, spiral, clustered at twig ends, 50 (-90) cm long; rachis pulvinate, 30 cm or more long, often lepidote_scaly; leaflets opposite to subopposite, 4-8 pairs with terminal one, petiolule 0.4 to 1 cm long; lamina 7-18 (-22) x 3-6.5 (-10) cm, oblong-lanceolate, apex acuminate, base asymmetric, margin entire, coriaceous, glabrous; midrib slightly raised above, stout beneath; secondary_nerves slender; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate.
Inflorescence / Flower : Inflorescence panicles; flowers polygamous.
Fruit and Seed : Capsule, subglobose, to 3 cm across, coriaceous, pale reddish, 3-celled; seed 1, orange red.

Ecology :

Understorey to subcanopy trees in evergreen forests, up to 1300 m.

Distribution :

Indomalaysia; in the Western_Ghats- South and Central Sahyadris.

Literatures :

Indian Forester 57: 486. 1931; Gamble, Fl. Madras 1: 181. 1997 (re. ed); Sasidharan, Biodiversity documentation for Kerala- Flowering Plants, part 6: 88. 2004; Saldanha, Fl. Karnataka 2: 231. 1996.

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