Botanical name: Litsea wightiana    Family: Lauraceae (Laurel family)

Cupped-Fruit Litsea is a tree with branchlets round and velvet-hairy. It can be easily identified by its ellipsoid berry, 1.5 cm across, cupped by the tepals to about the middle. Leaves are simple, alternate, spirally arranged. Leaf-stalks is up to 2.5 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, velvety. Leaves are 4.5-15 x 2-9 cm, elliptic, tip pointed to attenuate rarely blunt, base narrow, margin entire and slightly recurved, velvet-hairy beneath, somewhat leathery, midrib raised above, secondary nerves 6-8 pairs, tertiary nerves horizontally percurrent. Inflorescence are umbellules in racemes, carried on 1.5 cm long peduncle. Flowers are unisexual, stalkless. Cupped-Fruit Litsea is endemic to Western Ghats.

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