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Many-Flowered Litsea
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Many-Flowered Litsea
ative Photo: Tabish
Common name: Many-Flowered Litsea • Hindi: Meda, Gwa, Singraf, Katmarra, Jangli-rai-am • Manipuri: ꯇꯨꯃꯤꯠꯂꯥ Tumitla • Marathi: Ranamba • Tamil: Maidalagadil, Muchaippeyetti, Picinpattai • Mizo: Nauthak • Telugu: Chiru mamidi, Meda, Chiru maamidi, Naara, Narachettu, Naramaamidi • Kannada: Gajapippali, Hemmudi, Kainji • Bengali: Bara-kukurchita • Khasi: dieng soh phohskei, dieng sohtyllap • Nepali: Kutmira • Assamese: Khuwalu, Bon-khuwalu, Muga, Sualu • Nepali: कटमेरो Katamero, कुटमेरो Kutamero, रातमाटी Raatamaati
Botanical name: Litsea monopetala    Family: Lauraceae (Laurel family)
Synonyms: Litsea polyantha, Tetranthera monopetala, Tetranthera alnoides
Many-Flowered Litsea is a small tree up to 18 m tall, with a straight to crooked trunk, up to 60 cm in diameter. Bark is longitudinally fissured, dark greyish, inner bark brown mottled. Alternately arranged elliptic leaves, 4.5-17 cm x 2.5-10 cm, are pointed or blunt, smooth above, sparsely hairy below. The midrib is sunken above, with 6-13 pairs of secondary veins which are sunken above. Leaf stalk is about 1-2.5 cm long. Yellow flowers are borne in stalked umbellets in short racemes, with 6 tepals and 9-12 stamens. Fruit is oblong to ellipsoid, 0.7-1.2 cm long, seated on a small flat perianth cup. Many-Flowered Litsea is found in the Himalayas, from E Pakistan, Kumaun to NE India, Burma, SW China, and SE Asia, at altitudes below below 1500 m. It is also found in South India. Flowering: March-May.
Identification credit: Tabish Photographed in Manipur.
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