Maesopsis eminii Engl.

 
  • Family : RHAMNACEAE
    (BUCKTHORN FAMILY)
  • Family (as per The Plant List) : Rhamnaceae
  • Species : Maesopsis eminii
  • Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Maesopsis eminii Engl.
  • Collection Nos : HJCB-E-28
  • Collector(s) Name : Arun Singh R., Karuppusamy, Tilakar M.
  • Collection Date : 17/06/14
  • Collection Locality : Sirumalai Hills, Dindigal district, Tamil Nadu State
  • Habitat : Evergreen forest
  • Key identification features : A lofty tree of the forest with huge buttress.
  • Habit : Tree
  • Flower, Fruit : January-April
  • Native : Africa
  • Comments : Introduced from Africa into coffee plantations. Sometimes also seen as an escape.
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Distribution Locality : Yercaud Hills, Shevaroy Hills (Salem district), Sirumalai Hills (Dindigul district) (Tamil Nadu State)
  • World Distribution : Africa; Intoduced elsewhere
  • Literature : Parthsarathy, N & Pragasan , A L 2009. Check List 5(3):542-569; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983.
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Arun Singh R., Deepak Kumar, Raja K Swamy and Navendu Page (2016). Digital Flora of Eastern Ghats. http://easternghats.ces.iisc.ernet.in/plants.php?name=Maesopsis eminii. Downloaded on 29 June 2024.

Herbarium Specimen(s)

Field Images

Comments

All fields are required






 
Creative Commons License
Digital Flora of Eastern Ghats by Herbarium JCB is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at http://easternghats.ces.iisc.ernet.in.