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Colubrina asiatica (L.) Brongn.wfo-0000615212

Mém. Fam. Rhamnées: 62. 1826.— Ceanothus asiaticus L., Sp. Pl. 1: 196. 1753; Kurz, Forest Fl. Burma 1: 268. 1877; Ridl., Fl. Malay Penin. 1: 465. 1924; Craib, Fl. Siam. 1(2): 300. 1926; Tardieu, Fl. Indo-Chine, Suppl. 1(7): 842. 1948.

Accepted Name : This is currently accepted.

Description : Straggling shrub, often scandent, 2–5 m tall; branchlets sparsely rusty pubescent when young, later glabrescent. Leaves broadly ovate, elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, 6–7.5 by 4–5 cm, base obtuse to cordate, apex acute to acuminate, margin serrate or slightly crenate, thinly chartaceous, adaxially glabrous, glaucous to greyish green, abaxially minutely pubescent along the veins, glaucous; venation pinnate to weakly 3-veined from base, lateral veins 4–6 on each side; petiole slender, to 2 cm long, pubescent. Inflorescences 3–5-flowered, 3–4-branched; peduncles pubescent. Flowers greenish yellow, 3.5–4 mm in diam., minutely pubescent. Hypanthium disc-shaped, minutely pubescent outside. Sepals triangular, ca 1.5 mm long, apex acute. Petals spathulate, ca 1 mm long, apex truncate or slightly emarginate. Ovary glabrous, 3-locular; style 3-lobed. Capsule globose, apically slightly flattened, slightly 3-lobed, 5–6 by 7–¬8 mm, glabrous, greenish brown and becoming black at maturity, basally covered with remnants of hypanthium; stipe slender, 1–1.2 cm long. Seeds 3, glabrous, shiny.