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Miliusa tomentosa
Miliusa tomentosa is a large deciduous tree with 15–20 metre height. It is commonly known as wooly miliusa. The native range of this species is Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka on the Indian subcontinent. It is a tree and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropics.
From the article Miliusa tomentosa on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Woolly miliusa is a large deciduous tree, growing up to 20 m tall. Bark is blackish brown. Leaves are thick leathery, ovate, oblong, 4–10 cm long, 2–5.5 cm broad, smooth above, softly hairy below, base rounded, margin entire, tip pointed, leaf-stalk 2–5 mm. Flowers are greenish, 1.5 cm across, solitary or in pairs opposite the leaf. Sepals are about 4 mm long, linear-lanceshaped. Petals are 3+3, about 6 mm long, outer petals sepal-like, inner ones oblong to obovate. Fruits are dark purple, nearly spherical, 8–17 arranged in a ring, 2–3 cm across, stalk 1–1.5 cm long, seeds 3–4. It flowers from May to June.
At the table
The oil from its seeds is used in Chinese traditional medicine for its antibacterial and analgesic properties.
Wikipedia: “Uses”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 996454.