Opilia amentacea Roxb., Pl. Coromandel 2: 31 1802. (syn: Groutia celtidifolia Guill. & Perr.; Opilia amentacea var. tomentella Oliv.; Opilia angiensis De Wild.; Opilia celtidifolia (Guill. & Perr.) Endl. ex Walp.; Opilia celtidifolia var. sphaerocarpa Chiov.; Opilia celtidifolia var. tomentella (Oliv.) G.Ll.Lucas; Opilia fragrans Elmer; Opilia javanica Miq.; Opilia pentitdis Blume; Opilia ruwenzoriensis De Wild.; Opilia senegalensis Baill. [Illegitimate]; Opilia thorelii Gagnep.; Opilia tomentella (Oliv.) Engl.; Pentitdis scandens Zipp. ex Blume [Invalid]; Tetanosia olacioides (Wight & Arn.) M.Roem.); India: Bihar, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu; Lanka, Myanmar, Malaya, Thailand, Vietnam, Tropical Africa and Australia as per BSI Flora of India; Angola; Benin; Bismarck Archipelago; Borneo; Burkina; Burundi; Cambodia;
Cameroon; Central African Repu; Chad; China South-Central; Ethiopia; Gabon;
Gambia; Ghana; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; India; Ivory Coast; Jawa; Kenya; Laos;
Lesser Sunda Is.; Madagascar; Malawi; Mali; Maluku; Mozambique; Myanmar; New
Guinea; Nigeria; Northern Territory; Philippines; Queensland; Rwanda; Senegal;
Sierra Leone; Solomon Is.; Sri Lanka; Sudan; Sulawesi; Tanzania; Thailand; Togo;
Uganda; Vietnam; Western Australia; Zambia; Zare; Zimbabwe as per Catalogue of Life; Climbing shrubs, branchlets lenticellate, brown tomentose. Leaves 6-9 x 3 cm, ovate, apex acute, base obtuse or acute, coriaceous; petiole to 8 mm. Racemes axillary, 1-5 together, to 3 cm; flowers in groups of 2 or 3, pedicels 2 mm; sepals 5, minute; petals 2 mm, oblong, recurved; stamens opposite to petals, filaments 2 mm; glands 5, fleshy, club shaped, alternating with the stamens; ovary 1-celled, 1.5 mm, oblong, style minute, ovule pendulous. Flowering and fruiting: February-April Dry deciduous forests Peninsular India through Sri Lanka to Tropical Australia and Africa Opilia amentacea : Attachments (2). 2 posts by 2 authors. Opilia amentacea (Opiliaceae) from Sathyamangalam R.F., Tamil Nadu. The flowers are in racemes (stalked).
please help me in Identifying this tree Place of collection: Tamana reserve forest, Khurda Date of collection: 07/04/13 Habit: Tree, 5 to 9 m tall Altitude: 600 m above msl Habitat: road side of hill forest facing sun in Dry deciduous forests To me it looks like Opilia amentacea, a climbing shrub.... Many thanks for the lead. Opilia is a climbing shrub as u rightly pointed out. But the species i have posted here is a small tree. So i wl wait for others to comment. Please share ur thoughts. It is Opilia amentacea; I have noticed the plant in E. Ghats.
Opilia amentacea Roxb. SN Feb - 20: Attachments (1). 3 posts by 3 authors. Opilia amentacea Roxb; Fam : Opiliaceae Herbarium specimen here: http://tropicos.org/Image/100186480Climber in scrub jungle, south Chennai
Family: Opiliaceae Date: February and April 2016 Place: Turahalli, Bangalore, Karnataka Habit: Liana Habitat: Scrub forest Identified by: ... Nice ones ... All aspects visible like a mirror. very nice pictures of flowers and leaves. ANy fruits? now ot later? edible fruits http://www.pjbs.org/pjnonline/fin2027.pdf http://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/flora-malesiana/node/4557 Thanks, ..., for such detailed postings. These will certainly benefit the present & future generations. Thank you sir. Ma'am, in fact, in the same spot, there is one individual which has a thick stem is upright while another is scandent and has twined around the Ficus which is also growing on the rock. Regarding the fruits, I have been following up on this plant since February when I first spotted. Will definitely follow up on the fruits as well! great so your own observation supports what i had gleaned from reading up. will look forward to your finding the fruits.
Found in Vandalur forest. Chennai. The fruits are eated by animals. Seeds are fully dominated with layer of flesh around it. Pl check for Opilia amentacea Cansjera rheedii? I think it matches with : Opilia amentacea ..., The fruit color is red which is not matching with mine. Thanks ... |
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