Manipur Forest Flora
A Comprehensive Database of Ligneous Plants of Manipur (India)
Designed & Developed by Forest Research Institute, Dehradun
| Family: Lauraceae | Genus: Alseodaphne | Species: Alseodaphne petiolaris Hook.f. |
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Flower |
Fruit |
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| Synonym | Nothaphoebe petiolaris Meisn. | Flower Color | Greenish |
| Common Name | - | Flower Type | Panicle |
| English / Trade Name | - | Flowering Period | July-Sept |
| Vernacular /Local Name | - | Fruiting Period | Oct-Dec |
| Altitude | 600-900 m | Fruit Type | Follicle |
| Habit | Tree | Fruit Details | Fruit oblong-ovoid, ca. 2.8 × 1.3 cm, apex rounded, fleshy; fruit stalk robust, ca. 5 mm, up to 4 mm on dilated top |
| Habitat | Occurs in dry sparse forests, evergreen broad-leaved forests | Bark Type | Smooth |
| Distribution | India, Myanmar | Bark Details | Bark ashy grey surface smooth to fissured or cracking |
| Distribution in manipur | Eastern, Jiribam, Northern | Origin | Native |
| Leaf Type | Simple | ||
| Leaf Arrangement | Alternate (leaves born singly along stem) | ||
| Leaf Shape | Ovate | ||
| Description of Species | Trees, up to 20 m tall, ca. 10 cm d.b.h. branchlets brownish, robust, subverticillate, slightly angled, scattered with suborbicular corky lenticels, glabrous except young part, terminal buds ovoid; bud scales compact, densely brown puberulent | Leaf Details | Leaf blade brown on both surfaces but green-white abaxially when young, opaque abaxially, shiny adaxially, large, obovate-oblong or oblong, 14-26 × 6-15 cm, thickly leathery, midrib elevated abaxially, impressed adaxially, lateral veins ca. 11 pairs, very conspicuous abaxially, slightly elevated adaxially, oblique, arcuately connected at ends, transverse veins and veinlets reticulate, conspicuously elevated on both surfaces, base cuneate or subrounded and always unequal on sides, apex rounded or obtuse, abruptly shortly acuminate or emarginate |
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