Filicium decipiens Thwaites

Species

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Sapindaceae > Filicium

Characteristics

Small or medium-sized, polygamous trees; younger branches weakly sulcate with lepidote scales. Leaves pinnately compound, glabrous, 25-30 cm long, the rachis prominently winged, the wing broader toward the apex; leaflets sub-opposite or alternate, in 2-4 pairs, oblong-linear or oblong, 4-10 cm long, 1-2 cm wide, acute and minutely emarginate at the apex, inequilaterally acute at the base, sessile, entire, viscidulous on both surfaces, the upper surface shiny with many sunken lepidote scales, the reticulate veins obscure, the major lateral veins numerous, the lower surface with prominulous reticulate veins. Panicles terminal and from the uppermost leaf axils, 13-20 cm long; pedicels glabrate to sparsely strigose, to ca. 4 mm long. Flowers with the sepals narrowly ovate, to 5 mm long, narrowly rounded at the apex, glabrate on the outer surface, villous along the margins and on the inner surface; petals ovate, 1.5 mm long, glabrous on the sur-faces, ciliolate; disc plate shaped, woolly on the upper surface; stamens exserted, the filaments flattened, glabrous; staminate flowers with the stamens ca. 2.5 mm long, the anthers ovoid, ca. 0.5 mm long, the pistil ovoid, minute, glabrous; pis-tillate flowers not seen. Fruit drupaceous, ovoid, 1-1.5 cm long, smooth, dark purple.
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Slender tree 4.5–20(–30) m. tall; bark smooth, whitish.. Petiole winged, 1.5–11 cm. long; rhachis 15–30 cm. long, winged each side to 1 cm. wide, tapering below each leaflet pair; leaflets in 5–10 pairs, sessile, lanceolate to linear or narrowly oblong-elliptic, 5–16 cm. long, 0.5–4 cm. wide, acute, entire but crisped-undulate at the margin, glabrous, resinous when young; lateral nerves in 30–50 pairs, faint.. Inflorescence 6–20 cm. long; pedicels 2–4 mm. long.. Sepals 1.3 mm. long, herbaceous, puberulous inside, ciliate.. Petals yellow, 1.3 mm. long, ciliate, apparently caducous.. Stamens exserted from the calyx; staminodes not exserted.. Ovary 2-locular with 2 ovules, one only developing.. Fruit ellipsoid or subglobose, 9–10 mm. long, 6–8 mm. wide, with persistent style and reflexed sepals.. Fig. 2.
Trees. Indumentum sparse, sericeous, most parts with scale hairs. Leaves alternate, paripinnate, 5-many-jugate, rachis (broadly) winged. Leaflets narrow, long, shiny; nerves many, straight, scalar-iform; domatia absent. Inflorescences axillary to pseudoterminal panicles. Flowers unisexual. Sepals 5, equal, ovate, ciliate, with scale hairs outside. Petals 5, elliptic, about as large as sepals, ciliate; scales and auricles absent. Disc flat, complete, 5-lobed, densely pilose. Stamens 5, glabrous, exserted in male flowers, anthers not opening in female flowers. Ovary compressed-globose, finely hairy at base, 2-locular, rudimentary in male flowers; style short; stigma 2-lobed; one ovule per locule. Fruit a drupe, smooth, glabrous, thin-walled. Seeds without fleshy structure.
A tree. It grows 12-25 m tall. It has a round crown. The leaves are compound and large. They have 12-16 leaflets. Each leaflet is 10 to 15 cm long and narrow. The flowers are small and white. The fruit is fleshy and 1 cm across. They are oval, purple and shiny.
Usually a small tree up to 6–7 m. tall or shrub; bark variously described as smooth and greyish-brown or rough and dull chocolate-brown; branchlets
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
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Mature height (meter) 11.0 - 20.0
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Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

It is a tropical plant. It needs full sun. It cannot tolerate frost. It is best in a well drained alkaline soil. In India it grows in dry evergreen forests up to 1,000 m above sea level.
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Soil humidity 1-3
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses environmental use material medicinal ornamental
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Therapeutic use Antifungal agents (leaf), Anemia, hemolytic (seed), Apnea (whole plant excluding root), Cardiovascular system (whole plant excluding root)
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Cultivation

Plants can be grown by seeds.
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Images

Habit

Filicium decipiens habit picture by vakci VI (cc-by-sa)

Leaf

Filicium decipiens leaf picture by M BALARAJU (cc-by-sa)
Filicium decipiens leaf picture by Dea Puspha Annisa (cc-by-sa)
Filicium decipiens leaf picture by Sudesh Gunarathna (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Filicium decipiens world distribution map, present in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Fiji, India, Kenya, Sri Lanka, Madagascar, Myanmar, Mozambique, Malawi, Malaysia, Mayotte, Panama, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Tanzania, United Republic of, United States of America, and Zimbabwe

Conservation status

Filicium decipiens threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:128045-1
WFO ID wfo-0000690971
COL ID 6J2WQ
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 447592
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Synonyms

Filicium elongatum Pteridophyllum decipiens Jurighas decipiens Rhus decipiens Filicium decipiens f. apterum Filicium decipiens