Ehretia

G., Krishna, A., Kumar & Ranjan, V., 2022, Typification and distribution of Ehretia longiflora (Ehretiaceae) in India, Rheedea 32 (2), pp. 124-130 : 128-130

Key to the species of Ehretia in India

1. Styles 2 or 1, slender and bifid to near the base ....................................................... E. microphylla

1. Style 1, bifid less than half way down ............. 2

2. Leaf margins serrate .......................................... 3

2. Leaf margins entire ........................................... 4

3. Leaves lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate or oblong, and Dr. Anand Kumar (Botanist, BSI-CNH) indistinctly petiolate, 4–7-nerved on each side; for suggestions and providing herbarium inflorescences glabrous; calyx c. 1.5 mm long; images and the PCCF (Wildlife) & Chief corolla 2–2.5 mm long ................ E. acuminata Wildlife Warden (Department of Forest, West 3. Leaves broadly ovate to obovate, distinctly Bengal) for permission and logistic support.

petiolate, 9-nerved on each side; inflorescences crispate hirsute; calyx c. 4 mm long; corolla LiterAture Cited

6–8 mm long .............................. E. macrophylla

ALAPPATT J.P. 2018. Ehretia longiflora (Boraginaceae): 4. Flowers solitary ............................ E. psilosiphon a new record for India from Andaman 4. Flowers in cymes or corymb inflorescence ....... 5 & Nicobar Islands. Rheedea 28 ( 2): 105–107. 5. Inflorescence cymose ................................. 6 https://dx.doi.org/10.22244/rheedea.2018.28.2.21

5. Inflorescence corymbose ................................. 8 BACHMAN S., MOAT J., HILL A.W., DE LA 6. Leaves apex obtuse to sometimes retuse .......... TORRE J. & B. SCOTT 2011. Supporting Red ...................................................... E. obtusifolia List threat assessments with GeoCAT: geospatial 6. Leaves apex acute or acuminate .................... 7 conservation assessment tool. ZooKeys 150: 117–126. 7. Leaves apex acute; calyx-lobes ovate, glabrous; https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.150.2109

fruits pale-yellow or red .................. E. longiflora BENTHAM G. 1853. Florula Honkongensis: an 7. Leaves apex acuminate; calyx-lobes oblong, enumeration of the plants collected in the island of ciliate on margins only; fruits green ................. Hong-Kong by Major J.G. Champion, 95 th Reg., the ....................................................... E. wallichiana determination revised and the new species described by

G. Bentham. Hooker’s Journal of Botany and Kew Garden 8. Leaves elliptic ................................... E.matthewii

Miscellany 5: 52–58.

8. Leaves otherwise .............................................. 9

9. Leaves base long attenuate ............ E. wightiana BENTHAM G. 1861. Flora Hongkongensis: a description of 9. Leaves base rounded to truncate .................. 10 the flowering plants and ferns of the island of Hongkong. L.

Reeve & Co. Ltd., London.

10. Inflorescence sparsely hairy; leaf apex acute to acuminate; calyx campanulate or cup-shaped CHIEN Y.C., LN C.H., CHIANG M.Y., CHANG H.S.,......................................................................... 11 LIAO C.H., CHEN I.S., PENG C.F. & I.L. TSAI 10. Inflorescence glabrous; leaf apex obtuse or 2012. Secondary metabolites from the root of Ehretia longiflora and their biological activities. Phytochemistry imarginate; calyx triangular .......... E. timorensis

80: 50–57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phytochem.2012.04.013 11. Leaves lanceolate; calyx campanulate; style free

........................................................ E. dichotoma CLARKE C.B. 1883. Boragineae. In: HOOKER J.D. (ed.), 11. Leaves oblong; calyx cup-shaped; style divari- The Flora of British India, Volume 4. L. Reeve & Co.

Ltd., London. pp. 134–179.

cately forked up to middle .................. E. aspera

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