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Aegialitis rotundifolia Roxb.
Fl.
Shrub upto 3 m high, without any aerial roots, but the base of the trunk is swollen and fluted with spongy tissue Bark dark grey or blackish grey and fissured Stem straight, with inconspicuous leaf scars on shoot Leaf simple, alternate, cauline, exstipulate, petiolate Petiole 5.0 cm 8.5 cm long. dilated at base, clasping the stem. tubular leaf sheath, glabrous, solid but spongy, gradually narrow towards the lamina Lamina broad ovate, coriaceous, slightly fleshy, deep green, dorsiventral, dorsal side shiny, entire, obtuse, cuneate at base Inflorescence raceme, branched, peduncle upto 6.0 cm long, developed from sheathing petiole Flower bracteate, one bract and two bracteoles, bract ovate-lanceolate, entire, obtuse, curved, upto 1 cm long and 0.8 cm broad, green, bracteoles same as bract, but mucronate apex Flower complete, pentamerous, regular, bisexual Sepals 5, gamosepalous, 5 lobes above, short adjoining at abse, each lobe 1.0 cm long and 0.2 cm broad, entire, acute, green, glabrous, coriaceous, persistent, valvate, inferior Petals 5, polypetalous, linear oblong, white, imbricate, entire, obtuse, herbaceous, alternate to sepals Stamens 5, adhere, filament base adjoining to form short hollow tube, thin, filament whitish, terete, glabroaus, soft, exerted, equal length, extrose, basifixed, anther segittate, bilobed Carpels 5, syncarpous, ovary oblong, one chambered, basal placentation, styles 5, terminal, stigma absent |
