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Drypetes venusta

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Species of flowering plant

Drypetes venusta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Putranjivaceae
Genus: Drypetes
Species: D. venusta
Binomial name
Drypetes venusta
(Wight) Pax & K.Hoffm.
Synonyms
  • Astylis venusta Wight
  • Hemicyclia venusta (Wight) Thwaites
  • Drypetes elata (Bedd.) Pax & K.Hoffm.
  • Hemicyclia elata Bedd.

Drypetes venusta is an evergreen tree species endemic to the Western Ghats, India. They are large trees with smooth, straight, and white trunk and horizontal branches. It can reach a height up to 35 m, and a girth up to 3 m.

Description

The leaves are simple with alternate phyllotaxy and elliptic or elliptic oblong shape. Leaf size is about 5-12 × 2-5 cm. Leaf base is oblique, and apex is acute or shortly acuminate. There will be 8-12 pairs secondary nerves. The petiole length is 0.4-1 cm. Flowers are dioecious, and greenish yellow in colour. The male flowers are seen in axillary clusters with pedicel length of 1-1.5 cm. The female flowers are axillary, seen either solitary or in pairs, with pedicel length up to 6 cm. Fruit are ellipsoid or obovoid, green in colour, and drooping.

Distribution

This is a common tree in low and medium elevation evergreen forests of Western Ghats from Lonavala to Thiruvananthapuram. The altitudinal range is from 200 m to 1200 m.

References

  1. "Drypetes venusta". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
  2. ^ Page, Navendu (2017). Endemic Woody Plants of the Western Ghats. Bangalore: Trail Blazer Printers and Publishers. ISBN 978-93-5279-072-2.
  3. "Drypetes elata". indiabiodiversity.org. Biodiversity India. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
Taxon identifiers
Drypetes venusta
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