Kopsia fruticosa

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Description

Tree to 6 m tall. Bark mostly greyish. Branchlets sparsely to densely puberulent, glabrescent when older, not lenticellate, weakly angled. Leaves: Inflorescence dichasial, 4.9-9.5 cm long with axes 1.1-5.5 cm long and branches 1.1-1.9 mm wide, sparsely to densely puberulent; Sepals ovate or oblong, 1.7-2.5 by 1.2-2.2 mm, 1-1.7 times as long as wide, apex emarginate to obtuse, ciliate, glabrous to densely puberulent, glabrous or puberulent on upper half inside. Stamens inserted 20-33.5 mm from corolla base which is 0.8-0.9 of corolla tube length in rehydrated flowers; Ovaries 1.2-1.6 mm high, densely pubescent; Fruit falcate with a blunt hooked spur, c. 17 by 5 by 7 mm, spur c. 3 mm long, densely puberulent.

Distribution

Burma present, Tenasserim present

Burma (Tenasserim), also widely cultivated. The original description suggests the plant comes from Pegu but no collections have been seen from that far north.

Taxonomy

This species has quite a complex nomenclatural history and typification (see Middleton 2004).

Citation

Sévenet et al. 1994 – In: J. Ethno-pharmacol.: 165

Roxb. 1824 – In: Fl. Ind.: 526

Tsiang 1934 – In: Sunyatsenia: 110

Coode et al. 1996: Checklist Pl. Brunei: 27

Boerl. 1899 – In: Handl. Fl. Ned. Ind.: 395

Hook.f. 1882 – In: Fl. Brit. India: 639

Corner 1952 – In: Wayside Trees Malaya, ed. 2: 146

Backer & Bakh.f. 1965 – In: Fl. Java: 232

D.J. Middleton 1999 – In: Fl. Thailand: 61

Roxb. 1832 – In: Fl. Ind., ed. 2: 691

Markgr. 1973 – In: Blumea: 422

Wight 1841 – In: Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient.: t. 431

Sleesen 1959 – In: Fl. Mal. Misc. Rec.: 15

Miq. 1857 – In: Fl. Ned. Ind.: 412

Bakh.f. 1950 – In: Blumea: 390

Ridl. 1923 – In: Fl. Malay Penins.: 338

Lý 1986 – In: Feddes Repert.: 440

Sévenet et al. 1994 – In: J. Ethno-pharmacol.: 154

I.M. Turner 1997 – In: Gard. Bull. Singapore 47: 127

Sévenet et al. 1994 – In: J. Ethno-pharmacol.: 161

King & Gamble 1907 – In: J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal: 430

A.DC. 2004 – In: Harvard Pap. Bot.: 107

Merr. 1921: Bibliogr. Enum. Born. Pl.: 500

Masam. 1942: Enum. Phan. Born.: 621

A.DC. 1844 – In: Prodr.: 352