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Pleurostylia opposita

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Identification
Isotype of Pleurostylia wightii Wight & Arn. [family CELASTRACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Pleurostylia opposita (Vahl) Alston [family CELASTRACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Pleurostylia wightii
  • Euonymus godaverensis
  • Celastrus wightianus
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  • Elaeodendron microcarpum
  • Pleurostylia wightiana
  • Pleurostylia opposita

Flora

Entry for Pleurostylia opposita Wall. Alston [family CELASTRACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 2, Part 2, page 355, (1966) Author: N. K. Robson
Names
Pleurostylia opposita Wall. Alston [family CELASTRACEAE], Fl. Ceyl. 6, Suppl.: 48 (1931). — Men-ill & Metcalf in Lingn. Sci. Journ. 16: 394 (1937). — Ding Hou in Fl. Males., Sér. 1, 6: 288, t. 20 (1963). TAB. 81 fig. B. Type from India.
Celastrus oppositus Wall. [family CELASTRACEAE], in Roxb., Fl. Ind., ed. Carey & Wall., 2: 398 (1824). Type as above.
Pleurostylia wightii Wight & Arn. [family CELASTRACEAE], Prodr. Fl. Penins. Ind. Or. 1: 157 (1834). — Loes. in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. ed. 2, 20b: 180 (1942). Type from India.
Information
Tree or shrub up to 15 m. high; stems pale grey-green and 4-lined when young, becoming whitish, eventually terete. Leaf with lamina grey-green, ± glaucous, 3–8 × 1·5–5·5 cm., ovate to elliptic-oblong or obovate, obtuse or obtusely acuminate to rounded at the apex, with margin entire, cuneate to angustate at the base, chartaceous, with reticulate venation equally prominent on both sides; petiole 2–5 mm. long; stipules very small, acicular-triangular. Flowers 1–7(20) in condensed rounded clusters; peduncle 1–3 mm. long. Sepals 0·3–0·5 mm., semicircular, rounded, with margin entire. Petals 1–1·5 mm. long, elliptic or broadly ovate, with entire margin. Disk with lobes rounded or shallowly emarginate. Ovary ovoid, slightly asymmetric; ovules 2. Fruit white, 5–7 mm. long, ellipsoid to obovoid-ellipsoid. Seeds 1(2).
Habitat
In dune scrub in our area.
Range
Malaysia to Queensland and New Caledonia
Distribution
Mozambique Z Pebane beach, fl. 24.x.1942, Torre 4656 (LISC).
Distribution (external)
S. India
Ceylon
S. China
Notes
The above specimen is the only one recorded for the African mainland; but it agrees very well with material from Ceylon and S. India apart from having more flowers on an average in each cyme. P. pachyphloea Tul. from Mauritius and (?) Madagascar is very closely allied to P. opposita but has smaller globose fruits.

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