Buettneria aspera Colebr.

 
  • Family : STERCULIACEAE
    (Sterculia Or Cocoa Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : COCOA FAMILY
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Malvaceae
  • Synonym(s) : Ayenia aspera (Collebr. ex Wall.) Christenh. & Byng; Byttneria grandifolia DC.; Byttneria nepalensis Turcz.; Byttneria siamensis Craib; Commersonia aspera (Collebr. ex Wall.) G.Don
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Ayenia grandifolia (DC.) Christenh. & Byng
  • Habit : Climber
  • Habitat : Interior of forest
  • Key identification features : A powerful climber with thick trunk of 2-3 feet in girth. Flowers yellowish-pink, on calendar pedicels, collected into little umbels and forming axillary cymes; petals conniving with their two-cleft tips, the claw incurved and purple. Caporale 1-1 io. diam., armed with many, short, stiff, sharp prickles
  • Flower, Fruit : April-May
  • Distribution :
    • Arunachal Pradesh : Arunachal Pradesh
  • Native : Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Hainan, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicobar Is., Thailand, Vietnam
  • Literature :
    • Parkinson, C.E. 1923. A Forest Flora of the Andaman Islands, Govt. of India, Shimla: 102
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Buettneria aspera. Downloaded on 11 October 2024.

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