*Glochidion ellipticum* Wight, Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient. 5: t. 1906. 1852. *Phyllanthus assamicus* Müller Argoviensis, Flora 48: 378. 1865; *Diasperus ellipticus* (Müller Argoviensis) Kuntze; *D. **malabaricus* (Müller Argoviensis) Kuntze; *D. wightianus* Kuntze; *Glochidion assamicum* (Müller Argoviensis) J. D. Hooker; *G. assamicum* var. *magnicapsulum* Croizat & H. Hara; *G. balakrishnanii* Jothi et al.; *G. diversifolium* (Miquel) Merrill var. *wightianum* (Müller Argoviensis) Beddome; *G. ellipticum* var. * wightianum* (Müller Argoviensis) J. D. Hooker; *G. malabaricum* (Müller Argoviensis) Beddome; *P. andersonii* Müller Argoviensis; *P. diversifolius*Miquel var. *wightianus* Müller Argoviensis; *P. malabaricus* Müller Argoviensis.
Trees to 10 m tall, monoecious; branches glabrous. Stipules triangular, ca. 2 mm; petiole 2-3 mm; leaf blade broadly elliptic, ovate to lanceolate, 9-15 × 3.5-4.5 cm, papery or subleathery, both surfaces glabrous, abaxially brownish when dried, base obtuse, apex acuminate or shortly so; lateral veins 6-8 pairs. Flowers in bisexual axillary clusters, with many male flowers and few female flowers. Male flowers ca. 3 mm in diam.; pedicels slender, 13-20 mm, pubescent; sepals 6, oblong or obovate-oblong, pubescent outside; stamens 3; connate anthers oblong-ovoid, connectives cuspidate. Female flowers subsessile; sepals as in male; ovary globose, 3- or 4-locular, pubescent to glabrous; style column conical, glabrous. Fruiting pedicels short; capsules depressed globose, 2-3 × 6-8 mm, usually 4-locular, pericarp thinner. Seeds hemispheric, red. Fl. May-Aug, fr. Jul-Nov. Illustration: * http://www.efloras.org/object_page.aspx?object_id=109858&flora_id=2* Regards tanay On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 8:11 AM, R. Vijayasankar <[email protected]>wrote: > *Glochidion ellipticum *(Euphorbiaceae), a small tree or large shrub, > highly variable in leaf characters. > > With regards > > R. Vijayasankar > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<indiantreepix%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en. > -- Tanay Bose +91(033) 25550676 (Resi) 9830439691(Mobile) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en.
