Lannea coromandelica
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Description
Deciduous tree, usually of small size, 6-10 m high, sometimes up to 20 m high and 45 cm ø.
Leaves with 3-7 pairs of leaflets, 10-25 cm long.
Inflorescences appearing before the leaves, crowded at the apical part of a branch, or on a short-shoot (seemingly fasciculate) in the axil of a leaf-scar, spiciform, sometimes branched and paniculiform, 7-25 cm long;
Flowers yellowish green, tinged with red, subsessile.
Petals elliptic or oblong, 2-2½ by 1-1¼ mm.
Stamens 2-2½ mm, abortive ones in ♀ ⅔-1¼ mm.
Ovary c. ⅔ mm ø.
Seed reniform, c. ⅔ by ⅓ cm.
Distribution
Asia-Temperate: Hainan (Hainan present), Asia-Tropical: India present; Jawa (Jawa cultivated); Malaya cultivated; Thailand (Thailand present), Burma present, Ceylon present
India, Ceylon, Thailand, Burma, Indo-China, China (Hainan), in Malesia introduced, cultivated, escaped and locally more or less naturalized.
Often cultivated in Java, in Malaya on roadsides in the Settlements (BURKILL, l.c.).
Often cultivated in Java, in Malaya on roadsides in the Settlements (BURKILL, l.c.).
Uses
According to HEYNE () easily propagated by cuttings and used for living fences; also in the drier parts used as a roadside tree. Especially after injuries of the bark and trimmings masses of glassy-white exudate of hardening gum appear which may give leafless trees an eerie appearance. The gum is of inferior quality. Otherwise the tree has only some minor local occasional uses; the leaves can be eaten as a vegetable. In India the 'wodier wood' and also the gum is variously used (BURKILL).
Citation
HASSK. 1844 – In: Flora: 624
WIGHT 1838: IC.: t. 60
Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 622
BACK. 1911: Schoolfl.: 282
AIRY SHAW & FORMAN 1967 – In: Kew Bull.: 19
King 1896 – In: J. As. Soc. Beng.: 501
PARKINSON 1923: For. Fl. Andaman Is.: 140
BACK. 1907: Fl. Bat.: 376
Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 622
TARD. 1962: p. 141. – In: Fl. C. L. & V.: t. 10, f. 7-11
Engl. 1883: p. 267. – In: DC., Mon. Phan. 4: t. 8, f. 27-29
ADELB. 1954 – In: Reinwardtia: 150
Roxb. 1832 – In: Fl. Ind., ed. Carey: 293
LECOMTE 1908 – In: Fl. Gén. I.-C.: 34
BACK. & BAKH.F. 1965 – In: Fl. Java: 152
K. & V. 1896 – In: Bijdr.: 140
W. & A. 1834 – In: Prod.: 171
THW. 1858: En. Pl. Zeyl.: 78
Hook.f. 1876 – In: Fl. Br. Ind.: 29
HEYNE 1927: Nutt. Pl.: 976
HASSK. 1844: Cat. Hort. Bog.: 247
CRAIB 1926 – In: Fl. Siam. En.: 352
BEDD. 1871: Fl. Sylv.: t. 123
BURK. 1935: Dict.: 1313