Carallia brachiata

Carallia brachiata
	Carallia brachiata
Systematics
	Eurosiden I
Order :	Malpighiales (Malpighiales)
Family :	Rhizophora plants (Rhizophoraceae)
Tribe :	Gynotrocheae
Genre :	Carallia
Type :	Carallia brachiata
Scientific name
	Carallia brachiata
	( Lour. ) Merr.

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inflorescence

Carallia brachiata is a tree in the rhizophore family from Madagascar to India , Nepal and Southeast Asia , southern China , New Guinea to western and northern Australia .

description

Carallia brachiata usually grows as an evergreen tree up to 15 meters or in Southeast Asian rainforests up to 50 meters, rarely only as a shrub. The trunk diameter reaches 25–70 centimeters or more (up to 2 meters). Sometimes smaller plank or stilt roots are formed.

The simple and short-stalked leaves are opposite (bijugate; that is, two-digit). The short petiole is up to 1 centimeter long. The entire to sometimes finely toothed, obovate to elliptical, leathery and bare leaves are up to 10–15 centimeters long and 5–10 centimeters wide. The leaf margin is partly slightly bent and at the tip the leaves are pointed or pointed to pointed. The veins are pinnate with indistinct lateral veins. The larger stipules are sloping.

Axial, short and dense, resinous-sticky cymes are formed. The hermaphroditic, green-white to -yellow and very small, mostly sessile 5–8-fold flowers have a double flower envelope . The small, green, upright and slightly fleshy, short overgrown, flabby sepals are narrow-triangular. The upright, small petals, which are folded in, short- nailed and upright around a stamen , are short-fringed or notched. The short and free 10–16 obdiplostemonic stamens, with subtle stamens, are alternately longer in the petals or shorter in the sepals. The multi-chambered ovary is (half) underneath the small flower cup with a short, thick stylus and a lobed stigma . There is a lobed disc .

Small, round and multi-seeded (up to 5), up to 5–10 millimeters in size, red, shiny berries ( false fruit ) with remains of calyx and stylus are formed.

use

The pleasantly tasting, sweet and sour fruits are edible.

The bark and leaves are used medicinally.

The beautiful and medium-weight but not very durable wood is used in a variety of ways.

literature

K. Kubitzki : The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. Vol.XI : Flowering Plants Eudicots , Springer, 2014, ISBN 978-3-642-39416-4 , pp. 284 f, 288, 291.

Web links

Commons : Carallia brachiata - collection of images, videos and audio files

Carallia brachiata at Useful Tropical Plants.
Carallia brachiata at PROTA.
Carallia brachiata on biotik.org (pictures).
Carallia brachiata at VIKAS Pre University College.

Individual evidence

^ K. Kubitzki: The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. Vol. XI.

[1] K. Kubitzki: The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. Vol. XI.