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4. Celastrus paniculatus Willd.wfo-0000592859

Sp. Pl. 1: 1125. 1797; Wight, Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient. 1; t. 158. 1840; M.A.Lawson in Hook.f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 1: 617. 1875; Kurz, Forest Fl. Burma 1: 252. 1877; Prain, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 72: 195. 1904; Pit. in Lecomte, Fl. Indo-Chine 1: 890. 1912; Ridl., Fl. Malay Penin. 1: 451, 1922; Craib, Fl. Siam. Enum. 1: 284. 1926; Tardieu in Lecomte, Fl. Indo-Chine Suppl.: 803. fig. 98: 4–6. 1948; Not. Syst. 14: 45. 1950; Ding Hou, Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 42: 229, t. 32 & 34, fig. 3, map 1/1. 1955; in Steenis, Fl. Males. ser. 1, 6: 235. 1963; J.S.Ma, Z.X.Zhang, Q.R.Liu, H.Peng & Funston in Z.Y.Wu, P.H.Raven & D.Y.Hong, Fl. China 11: 467, 2008; Plate XXV: 2.

Accepted Name : This is currently accepted.

Description : Lianas, young branchlets straight, light brownish, usually pubescent, densely lenticellate. Leaves elliptic, broad-obovate, suborbiculate, or ovate, 6–15 by 3–8 cm, base cuneate, obtuse or rounded, apex acute, acuminate, obtuse, rarely emarginated, margin serrate or remotely crenate, nerves 5–8 per side, petiole 5–10(–20) mm. Inflorescences terminal, paniculate, (2–)5–10(-20) cm long; pedicels 1.5–3.5 mm long. Calyx lobes semi-orbiculate, 0.7–1 mm long. Petals oblong or obovate-oblong, 2.5–3 mm long. Disk cupular. Fertile stamens ca 3 mm long, sterile ones short in female flowers ca 1.5 mm long. Pistil 2–2.5 mm long, pistillode in male flowers short. Fruits subglobose, 5–10 by 5–8 mm, 3–6-seeded. Seeds ellipsoid, 3.5–5 by 2–3 mm.

Thailand : NOTHERN: Mae Hong Son, Chiang Mai (Bo Luang, between Sop Aep and Mon, Chom Thong, Doi Suthep, Wang Tao), Chiang Rai (Wiang Pa Pao), Nan (Khun Mo Tom), Lampang (Maharat); NORTH-EASTERN: Loei (Pak Chom, Phu Kradueng, Wang Saphung), Mukdahan; EASTERN: Chaiyaphum, Nakhon Ratchasima; SOUTH-EASTERN: Chon Buri (Si Racha), Chanthaburi; SOUTH-WESTERN: Kanchanaburi (Sai Yok), Phetchaburi (Kaeng Krachan NP).

Distribution : Widely distributed in SE Asia (type from India), throughout Malesia (not yet found in Borneo), to Australia and New Caledonia.

Ecology : In evergreen, light deciduous and secondary forests, near sea level to 1,300 m alt. Flowering: March, April, May; fruiting: May, July–October, December.

Vernacular : Krathong lai (กระทงลาย)(Phetchabun, Uttaradit); ma taek (มะแตก)(Northern, Northeastern).