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PLANTS>>Flowering Plants>>Angiosperms (Magnoliophyta)>>Dicotyledons (Magnoliopsida)>>Asteridae>>Gentianales>>Apocynaceae>>Alstonia>>Alstonia neriifolia D.Don>>
Taxon ID: [2693], Alstonia neriifolia D.Don
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Family Name

Apocynaceae

Taxon Name:
Alstonia neriifolia D.Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal.:131 (1825). Press, Shrestha and Sutton, Ann. Checklist Fl. Pl. Nepal: 11 (2000).

 

 

 
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Common Nepali Name(s):

Chhatiwan

Vernacular Name(s):

Purbo-kung (Lepcha)

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Life form/Habit:

Large shrub or small tree in lowland.

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Description:

Small tree or shrub, 3-6 m tall; branches softly pubescent. Leaves sub-coriaceous, 3-4 in a whorl or opposite, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 5-20 x 1.3-4.5cm, apex acuminate to acute, base cuneate, hirsute pubescent to sparsely pubescent, more dense beneath; petiole 0.5-2 cm, hirsute. Inflorescence lax, branches hirsute. Flowers yellow green, pale red outside; calyx lobes1-2mm long, narrowly triangular, ciliate (at least at base, sometimes minutely so); corolla tube 0.9-2 cm long, distinctly inflated at apex, pubescent at mouth; lobes1-2 x 0.5cm, elliptic. Disc of 2 ligulate glands, alternate with the carpels; stigma apiculi short, blunt. Fruit 5-13 cm x 0.6-0.7cm, brown, striate, silver inside. Seeds 8-10 x 2-3mm, densely long (3-10mm), brown, ciliate34.

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