Botanical name: Sycopsis griffithiana    Family: Hamamelidaceae (Witch-hazel family)

Khasi Fighazel is a branching shrub or a tree, the branchlets are minutely finely velvet-hairy or scaly when young, becoming hairless. It is named for William Griffith (1810-1845), a British doctor, naturalist, and botanist, who studied plants of East Himalaya. Leaves with channeled hairless or scaly leaf-stalk up to 7 mm long, the blade elliptic-ovate, generally slender tapering at tip, wedge-shaped at base, 4-8 cm long, 2-3 cm wide, entire, hairless, the midrib and about 8 pairs of lateral nerves slightly impressed above, raised beneath. Flowers are borne in almost glomerate, velvet-hairy heads or headlike spikes, bracteate at base, the lower portion of the sepal-cup tube adnate to the ovary, the free portion velvet-hairy within. Stamens are up to 8, of which number several appear abortive. Fruits are spherical or ovoid, with ruptured scaly receptacle tube at base. Khasi Fighazel is native to NE India, Khasi hills.

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