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39. Colubrina asiatica

Botanical Name: Colubrina asiatica (L.) Brongn.[Rhamnaceae]
Common Name:  Guti


Distribution: India: Charkop, Kandivali West, Mumbai, Maharashtra
Found near sea-shores/coastal regions. 'The Flora of the Presidency of Bombay' Vol. I mentions it's distribution in Ghats of Konkan, and also mentions following references to other areas of distribution: Eastern and Western peninsulas from Konkan and Tenasserim southwards,Ceylon, Elephanta and the Ghats(Talbot) and plentiful near the sea at Ratnagiri(Dalzell and Gibson).
Global Distribution: India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Australia, S.E.Africa(Reference: Cooke's flora, indiabiodiversity.org website)
S Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Taiwan, Philippines, Thailand, West Indies (Greater and Lesser Antilles); an almost pantropical species reported for many coasts of the New and Old World  tropics (Reference: Flora of china website)
Colubrina asiatica is also naturally distributed in Hawaii. It is considered as 'invasive' species in Florida, and capable of disturbing the ecology by displacing the local flora.
Habitat: thicket near Mangroves, climbing on a thicket made of Manilkara hexandra and several other climbers






Habit: unarmed, scandent shrub
Flowering and Fruiting: Flowering season is December-March(Reference:https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/259617) and January (Reference: 'Additions to flowers of Sahyadri' by Shrikant Ingalhalikar)
Some resources on the internet mention that the flowering can be throughout the year.
Observed the flowering in July.

Plant details:
Stem: older stem is woody
Leaves: alternate, shiny and glabrous, broadly ovate,acuminate, subcordate at base, margin: crenate
Flower: mostly a 5-merous flower in axillary cymes. Also observed a 4-merous flower(attached a photo)
Calyx tube hemispherical. Sepals are triangular in shape and whitish in colour. Petals are greenish-pale yellow, cucullate and some part of stamen(a part of filament and whole of anther) remains enclosed in the petal. The ovary is immersed in the stout disk and usually 3-loculed. Style 3-fid/lobed.
Fruit: globose capsules, dehiscent at maturity

The Plant





The Stem


Leaves


Flower





4-merous flower



Fruit 



 

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