Manipur Forest Flora
A Comprehensive Database of Ligneous Plants of Manipur (India)
Designed & Developed by Forest Research Institute, Dehradun
| Family: Rubiaceae | Genus: Neonauclea | Species: Neonauclea griffithii (Hook.f.) Merr. |
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| Synonym | Adina griffithii Hook.f., Cephalanthus navillei H.Lév. | Flower Color | White |
| Common Name | - | Flower Type | Solitary |
| English / Trade Name | - | Flowering Period | Oct-Dec |
| Vernacular /Local Name | - | Fruiting Period | Jan-March |
| Altitude | 800-1300 m | Fruit Type | Capsule |
| Habit | Tree | Fruit Details | Fruiting heads ca. 20 mm in diam, fruit obconic, 5-6 mm, pilosulous at least at apex; seeds not seen |
| Habitat | Occurs in dense forests in valleys or on humid slopes | Bark Type | Fissured |
| Distribution | India, Bhutan and Myanmar | Bark Details | Bark greenish gray, fissured and cracked, sometimes warty |
| Distribution in manipur | Central, Eastern, Jiribam | Origin | Native |
| Leaf Type | Simple | ||
| Leaf Arrangement | Opposite (leaves in pairs along stem) | ||
| Leaf Shape | Obovate | ||
| Description of Species | Trees, evergreen, to 20 m tall; trunk often buttressed at base sometimes with aerial roots bark greenish gray, fissured and cracked, sometimes warty, with inner bark yellow, pale brown to pink; branchlets quadrangular becoming terete, grayish brown, rugose or striate, white lenticellate, glabrescent | Leaf Details | Leaves obovate to elliptic orbicular, 10-20 x 5-13cm, apex shortly acuminate, base acute to cuneate, often attenuate, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, glabrous veins raised below, lateral pairs 5-9; petioles 0-2cm. Stipules obovate to ovate oblong, 5-10 x 3-8mm, glabrous flattened around terminal vegetative bud |
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