Wrightia religiosa
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Description
Shrub or small tree to 5 m tall.
Branchlets puberulent, soon becoming glabrous and sparsely lenticellate.
Leaves:
Inflorescence 1.7-4.2 cm long;
Sepals ovate or oblong, 1-2.5 by 0.7-1 mm, 1.9-2.4 times as long as wide, apex obtuse to acute, glabrous, ciliate;
Stamens inserted at corolla mouth, strongly exserted from tube;
Fruit of paired follicles;
Seeds linear;
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Cambodia (Cambodia present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Thailand (Thailand present)
Thailand, Cambodia; in Malesia: Possibly Peninsular Malaysia. The natural distribution of this species is now obscure because it is so widely cultivated but is probably Thailand and maybe Cambodia. It may also be native in Peninsular Malaysia but is certainly widely cultivated in many parts of Malesia.
Citation
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Pit. 1933 – In: Lecomte, Fl. Indo-Chine 3: 1183
Whitmore & Tantra 1986: Checklist Sumatra: 20
Whitmore 1973 – In: Tree Fl. Malaya: 24
Bakh.f. 1950 – In: Blumea: 393
Tsiang 1939 – In: Sunyatsenia: 42
Backer & Bakh.f. 1965 – In: Fl. Java: 241
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Kurz 1877 – In: Forest Fl. Burma: 194
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