Garcinia cambogioides (Murray) Headland

N., Mohanan, P. S., Shameer, Abstract, T. Sabu & L., Garcinia, 2023, Taxonomic revision of Garcinia (Clusiaceae) in India, Rheedea 33 (3), pp. 101-158 : 117-118

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.22244/rheedea.2023.33.03.01

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E5C231-6E6D-C50D-112A-4E23F44B1021

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Felipe

scientific name

Garcinia cambogioides (Murray) Headland
status

 

Garcinia cambogioides (Murray) Headland View in CoL var. cuspida (A.Begum, Brothakur & J.Sarma) T.K.Paul, Pleione View in CoL 15(3): 454. 2021; G. morella var. cuspida

A. Begum , Brothakur & J. Sarma, Pleione 8 (2): 502. 2014 . Type: INDIA, Assam, Tinsukia district, Borguri, Near Bherjan-Borjan , Padumoni Wildlife Sanctuary , 18.04. 2012, 277 m asl., Ajima Begum & Jatindra Sarma 101 (holo, GUBH!; iso, ASSAM!) .

Dioecious trees; exudate yellowish. Branches drooping; branchlets terete. Lamina lanceolate or elliptic-oblong or obovate, 7–13 × 2.7–4.1 cm, attenuate at base, margins entire, acuminate or cuspidate-bend at tip; midrib raised abaxially, impressed adaxially; secondary veins 8–12 pairs, slightly visible on upper surface only. Staminate flowers tetramerous, 0.8–1 cm diam.; stamens in a tetragonous mass. Pistillate flowers greenish white, solitary or in clusters of 2–4 terminal and axillary fascicles, 1–1.2 cm in diam., sessile. Sepals 4, almost equal, 0.25–0.3 × 0.2–0.35 cm; petals 4, ovate, imbricate, 0.8–0.9 × 0.4– 0. 45 cm, greenish white, margins fimbriate, 0.3–0.5 cm long; staminodes 0.2–0.25 cm long, united in lower half and enveloping ovary base; ovary obovate, quadrangular, 5–6-loculed, not grooved; style 0.1–0.2 cm long; stigma white, indistinctly 5–6-lobed. Berries oblong-ovoid, 5–6 × 4–5 cm, with 1–1.2 cm long curved tip. Seeds oblong, 2–4, compressed.

Flowering & fruiting: Flowering from March to April; fruiting from April to May.

Habitat: Evergreen forests, up to 200 m elevation.

Distribution: Endemic to Assam ( India).

A

Harvard University - Arnold Arboretum

J

University of the Witwatersrand

GUBH

Gauhati University

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Malpighiales

Family

Clusiaceae

Genus

Garcinia

Loc

Garcinia cambogioides (Murray) Headland

N., Mohanan, P. S., Shameer, Abstract, T. Sabu & L., Garcinia 2023
2023
Loc

var. cuspida (A.Begum, Brothakur & J.Sarma) T.K.Paul, Pleione

T. K. Paul 2021: 454
2021
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