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Plants of the Coast of Coromandel 1: 66, pl. 97. 1795. ( Pl. Coromandel)   
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(Last Modified On 6/2/2011)
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Acceptance
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Accepted
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(Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
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Flower/Fruit:
Fl. Per.: October-March.
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Type:
Type: "A native of the banks of river lets and moist places far among the mountains", Roxb., Pl. Corom. 1: t. 97. 1798.
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Distribution:
Distribution: Pakistan (N.W.F. Province, Punjab, Baluchistan), India, Myanmar, China (Guangdong, Hainan, Xizang, Yunnan) Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Vietnam.
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Comment/Acknowledgements:
Tree of wet and swampy places, shedding the leaves at the end of monsoon. According to Parker (l.c.) it is indigenous in sub-Himalayan tracts. Planted in plains of the Punjab.
The bark is used as a febrifuge (Kirtikar & Basu l.c. 2362).
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Map Location:
B-7 1 mile from Kawai on way to Shogran, tree, c. 4-5 m., fruit present, 9.5.83 Saood Omer, S. Nazimuddin & A. Wahid 591 (KUH); C-6 Peshawar, S.A. Khan (PPFI); Nasarullah Khan (PPFI); C-7 Azad Kashmir, Poonch, Ghamir, 25.3.1954, Rashid Khan (BM); Tank, 23.12.1955, Collector unknown 907 (KUH); Rawalpindi, Ayub Park, tree, 30 ft, flower greenish, 14.3.1967, Saida Qureshi (KUH); Rawalpindi, Ayub Park, cultivated along the bank of lake, tree up to 20 ft, 15.3.1968, Saida Qureshi (KUH); Rawalpindi, Rawal Dam, ± 2200 ft, 17.2.1975, Iqbal Dar, Anjum Amin & M. Akram (ISL); C-8 Sialkot, Zafarwal, 30.12.1916, R.R. & I.D. Stewart 666 (RAW); D-8 Lahore, cultivated Rewaz Garden, opp. University ground, tree, c. 4 m, flowers green, anthers yellow, 26.11.1984, Abdul Ghafoor 902 (KUH); Lahore, Shahadra, large trees, 11.11.1935, R.R. Stewart 15369 (RAW); Changa Manga, 6.11.1961, Khizer Hayat Baloch 112 (PPFI); Changa Manga, 10.10.1961, Khizer Hayat Baloch 117 (PPFI); Lahore garden, April 1846, T. Thomson (K); Lahore, planted on the bank of the Ravi at Shahadra, 26.2 1933, R.N. Parker 3262 (K).
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Medium sized tree. Young branches silky to glabrous, brown with longitudinal furrows. Leaves c. 5-12(-18) x c. 1.5-5 cm, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, entire to finely serrate, acute to acuminate, green and glabrous above, pale beneath, ± silky when young. Petiole 5-18 mm. Towards the base of the shoots the leaves are usually smaller. Stipules caducous, on vigorous shoots conspicuous, semicordate with gland tipped teeth. Flowers appearing after the leaves. Male catkin 5-13 cm long. Peduncle up to 8 mm long, rachis hairy. Bracts 1-2 mm long, obovate, concave, yellowish brown, totally or partly villous, tip obtuse to truncate. Stamens 5-10, filaments free, woolly towards the base, anthers yellow. Disk of 2 yellow glands. Female catkin 2.5-3 cm long, rachis hairy, bracts as in the male catkin, but slightly smaller. Disc semi-annular opposite the bract. Ovary ovoid, style almost absent, stigma bifid, each branch 2 lobed. Fruiting catkin lax, c. 5-10 cm long; capsules c. 3.5-5 mm long, glabrous; stipe 0.5-3 mm.
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