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Millingtonia hortensis L.f.wfo-0000778968

Suppl.: 291. 1781; Kurz, Fl. Burm. 2: 238. 1877; Clarke in Fl. Br. Ind. 4: 377. 1884; Craib, Kew Bull. 1911: 433; P.Dop in Fl. Gén. I.-C. 4: 572. F. 61, 4–5. 1930; Santisuk, Thai For. Bull. Bot. 8: 5. 1974; Steenis in Fl. Males., Ser. 1, Spermat. 8: 133. F. 8. 1977; Santisuk & Vidal in Fl. C.L.V. 22: 12. Pl. 1, 8–13. 1985

Accepted Name : This is currently accepted.

Description : Medium-sized tree; bark rough, cracking. Leaves nearly glabrous, 3–5 jugate, lower pairs pinnate, up to ca 1 m long; leaflets elliptic, ovate or ovate-lanceoiate, 2–7 by 1.5–3.3 cm; apex acuminate; margin sinuate or crenate to subentire; midrib and lateral nerves sparsely hirsute underneath; domatia hairy. Thyrse 10–35 cm long, puberulous. Calyx 2–4 mm long; lobes very short, broadly obtuse, margin revolute. Corolla with cylindric basal tube, 5.5–8 by 0.2 cm, glandular puberulous inside; funnel-shaped throat 3–5 cm diam; lobes ovate, acute, villous to pubescent inside. Capsule 28–36 by 1.4–1.8 cm. Seeds 1.4–3.5 by 1–1.5 cm.

Thailand : NORTHERN: Chiang Mai, Phrae, Nakhon Sawan; NORTH-EASTERN: Loei, Maha Sarakham; EASTERN: Nakhon Ratchasima; SOUTH-EASTERN: Chachoengsao; SOUTH-WESTERN: Kanchanaburi.

Distribution : Scattered in the wild from Lower Burma to Tenasserim, Indochina, frequent in south-western Thailand. Commonly cultivated as ornamental and wayside trees throughout India (type), also in Thailand, and Malesia, occasionally naturalized.

Ecology : In open mixed deciduous forests.

Vernacular : Pip (ปีป)(Central, Southeastern); kasalong (กาซะลอง), katsalong (กาดสะลอง)(Northern); tek-tong-pho (เต็กตองโพ่)(Karen-Southwestern).