Dillenia nagalim - Nagalim Dog Teak

Nagalim Dog Teak is a newly (2026) described species, a shrub about 3-4 ft tall, occurring in open tropical deciduous forests. The species name nagalim means land of Naga tribes. Flowers arise singly or 2-3 together, 6-8 cm across, carried on stalks 2-3 cm (up to 4.5 cm in fruit). Petals are 5, yellow, 3.5-4.5 x 2-3.5 cm, wavy, tip rounded. Stamens are about 270 in 4-5 rows. Sepals are 5, 2.5-3.6 x 2-2.5 cm, ovate to elliptic, overlapping, persistent. Carpels are 7-8; ovary 4-6 mm. Stems are branched, sympodial, densely hairy when young, becoming hairless with age; leaf scars clasp about half or more of the branch. Leaf-stalks are 1.2-2.5 cm long, 2-4 mm broad, with brown fibrous hairs; leaf blades inverted-lanceshaped to lanceshaped-elliptic, 12.5-23.5 x 4.5-7.5 cm, doubly sawtoothed, tip tapering, base wedge-shaped or decurrent; surfaces velvety, with 32-43 lateral nerves. Fruits are globular, 3 x 2 cm, seeds 2-6, 4 × 3 mm, in pungent jelly. Nagalim Dog Teak is known only from Kamjong distt. of Manipur, as of now. Flowering: May-June.