I think it does not seem to match as per this description as corolla lobes are 6 instead of 4 and it is also not urceolate.
On Wed, 5 Apr 2023 at 13:36, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Sawmliana ji > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: M Sawmliana <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2023 at 13:31 > Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:445322] MS, April, 2023/04 Diospyros sp. ? for > id. > To: J.M. Garg <[email protected]> > > > > On Wed, 5 Apr, 2023, 1:22 pm J.M. Garg, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> After working a lot with the attached keys and checking almost all the >> species with herbarium specimens in POWO and GBIF, I feel it may be >> Diospyros variegata (not sure) as per GBIF >> <https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/gallery?taxon_key=4070868> specimen >> <https://www.gbif.org/tools/zoom/simple.html?src=//api.gbif.org/v1/image/unsafe/http%3A%2F%2Fmediaphoto.mnhn.fr%2Fmedia%2F1441379465180Nw53fvNas7lOsFOL> >> . >> Pl. post the description from your book. >> Description given in FBI from IBIS Flora >> <https://flora.indianbiodiversity.org/content/diospyros-variegata-kurz-0> >> is as below: >> >> *Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. *1871, pt. ii. 73 ; leaves large broadly oblong >> acute glabrous, male flowers in very short sparingly pubescent cymes, >> corolla salver-shaped nearly glabrous without. Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil >> Soc. xii. 203 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 236, and For. Fl. ii. >> 137. >> >> ASSAM ; Jenkins. PEGU and MARTABAN ; alt. 0-1000 ft., not infrequent, >> Kurz. A tree, attaining 70 ft. (Kurz) ; glabrous. >> >> Leaves by 2.1/2-3.1/2 in., base cuneate or subobtuse, coriaceous ; >> primary nerves oblique strong, reticulating nerves distinct ; petiole >> 1/4-1/3 in. Male fl. : cymes 3-8-flowered, crowded ; calyx 1/5 in., 4-lobed >> more than half-way down, lobes elliptic minutely pubescent ; corolla-tube >> 1/4 in., narrowed upwards, lobes 4.1/4 in., ovate, subacute, patent ; >> stamens about 16, anthers glabrous.— In an Assam fruiting example (n. 275 >> Herb. Kew) ; peduncle 1/5 in. ; fruit solitary 3/4 in. diam., globose, >> ferruginous-villous ; calyx-lobes 4, 3/4 by 1/2 in., auriculate, >> ferruginous-pubescent within. This was matched with Kurz’s male examples of >> D. variegata by the leaves, apparently correctly by Hiern, who nevertheless >> hesitated to describe the fruit of D. variegata from it.—Griffith’s Assam >> examples, referred to by Hiern l. c. 223, were finally referred to D. >> variegata, with which the leaves exactly agree ; the examples exhibit only >> leaves and dense panicles 4-6 in. diam, of abortive buds : these are >> doubtful. >> >> >> On Tue, 4 Apr 2023 at 19:02, M Sawmliana <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Location : Hmuifang tlang, Mizoram >>> Altitude : ca.1,500 m >>> Date : 04-04-2023 >>> Habit : Middle-sized evergreen tree >>> Habitat : Wild >>> >>> With regards, >>> M.Sawmliana >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "eFloraofIndia" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web, visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/CAKYzkXM0F8ZK45_qqkZ-igpo8Ga2UU9rdXc0xSAdNXQ_SmAe1A%40mail.gmail.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/CAKYzkXM0F8ZK45_qqkZ-igpo8Ga2UU9rdXc0xSAdNXQ_SmAe1A%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> >> >> -- >> With regards, >> J.M.Garg >> > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > -- With regards, J.M.Garg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "eFloraofIndia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/CA%2BiuSFCG4%3DuMDS%3D_BjNiLa0V%2BeWX2PMvvXP8Gs27jz0ERVPjvQ%40mail.gmail.com.
