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Published In: De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum. . . . 2(2): 244, pl. 133, f. 1. 1791. (Fruct. Sem. Pl.) Name publication detailView in BotanicusView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 6/2/2011)
Acceptance : Accepted
Project Data     (Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
Type: Type: Described from India.
Distribution: Distribution: Throughout the tropics of the world.
Comment/Acknowledgements: Rarely cultivated in Pakistan for its beautiful flowers.
Illustration: Ceiba pentandra (L.) Gaertn. (Illustration)

 

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Tree up to 100 ft. high trunk with large buttresses, branches with or without prickles, generally prickly in young stage, prickles acute. Leaves 5-9 foliolate, glabrous, petiole 5-23 cm long, leaflet oblong lanceolate, acuminate-7-20 cm x 2.3-4.2 cm, petiolule 0.5-1.2 cm long. Flowers usually appear before the flush of leaves. Inflorescence fasciculate few to many flowered. Flowers yellow or white, pedicel 2.5-3 cm long. Calyx campanulate 4-5 lobed, lobes 1-1.2 cm long, glabrous outside, silky villous inside. Petals obovate-oblong, 2.5-4 cm x 1-1.5 cm, tomentose outside, except the base, pubescent near the apex inside. Staminal column 5-5.5 mm long, glabrous, filament 2.5 cm long, each branch bearing 2-3 anfractuose anthers. Ovary globose, stigma capitate. Capsule wooly ellipsoid or fusiform, acute at both ends 10-26 cm long and 3-4 cm in diam. Seeds numerous subglobose 5.5-7 mm long and 4.4-5.5 mm wide.
 
 
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