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Microcos paniculata L.

Species

Angiosperms > Malvales > Malvaceae > Microcos

Characteristics

Shrubs or small trees 3-12 m tall. Bark rough; branchlets hairy. Stipule filiform, lanceolate, 5-7 mm; petiole 1-1.5 cm, hairy; leaf blade ovate or oblong, 8-18 × 4-8 cm, thinly leathery, very sparsely stellate at first and glabrescent both abaxially and adaxially, basal veins 3, laterals more than 1/2 as long as leaf blade, base rounded, margin finely crenate, apex acuminate. Panicles terminal, 4-10 cm, stellate. Bracts lanceolate. Pedicel short. Sepals oblong, 5-7 mm, hairy abaxially. Petals oblong, 3-4 mm, hairy in proximal 1/2; glands ca. 2 mm. Stamens shorter than sepals. Ovary globose, glabrous. Drupe nearly globose or obovoid, ca. 1 cm; stipe short. Fl. Jun-Jul.
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A shrub or small tree. It can grow to 20 m high. The crown is dense and cylinder shaped. The trunk is slightly fluted. The leaves are 12-20 cm long by 6-8 cm wide. They are oblong but taper slightly to the tip. There can be shallow irregular teeth towards the tip. The flowers are bright yellow and about 1 cm across. They are in branched clusters at the ends of twigs. These are 3-10 cm long. The fruit are up to 1.5 cm across. They are dark green and turn black when ripe. They have one large stone.
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Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 15.5
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Root diameter (meter) 0.1
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Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

A tropical plant. It grows in Yunnan in China below 1,000 m above sea level. It grows in monsoon forest and secondary forest. In XTBG Yunnan.
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Mixed deciduous and dry evergreen forest, often along streams, at elevations up to 1,000 metres.
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Soil humidity 1-3
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

The fruit are eaten raw.
Uses food material medicinal social use tea timber wood
Edible fruits leaves
Therapeutic use Fractures, bone (leaf), Antioxidants (stem), Dysentery (unspecified), Eczema (unspecified), Fever (unspecified), Itch (unspecified), Sore (unspecified), Stomatitis (unspecified), Syphilis (unspecified), Typhoid (unspecified), Dyspepsia (unspecified), Diuretics (unspecified), Diuretics (whole plant excluding root)
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Cultivation

The plants can be grown from seeds.
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Images

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Distribution

Microcos paniculata world distribution map, present in Bangladesh, China, Indonesia, India, Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Pakistan, Thailand, and Viet Nam

Conservation status

Microcos paniculata threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:834845-1
WFO ID wfo-0000451652
COL ID 6RFSD
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Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Microcos nervosa Microcos paniculata Microcos mala Grewia muenterii Grewia nervosa Fallopia nervosa Grewia affinis Grewia microcos Grewia ulmifolia Microcos glabra Arsis rugosa
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