Meliosmaceae Meliosma herbertii Rolfe

| |	© W.D. Hawthorne

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Keywords in this picture :

• Foliage
• Flower
• Lamina leaf blade
• Vegetative
• Venation
• Leaf parts
• Inflorescence
• Flower & fruit
• Leaf
• Plant parts

Places where this species can be found :

• Grand Etang - GRENADA
• Petit Etang - GRENADA
• Mt. Sinai - GRENADA

Species information

Description
25m evergreen tree. Buds with dense red hairs. Leaves simple, alternate or subopposite, with pulvinate petioles 1.3-3cm long. Blades elliptic, to narrowly obovate, up to 25cm long, abruptly acuminate, 6-11 prs laterals, papery. Sometimes serrated when juvenile. 2cm long purplish drupes.

Interest
Meliosma - from Gk meli, honey, and osme, fragrance; reference to the honey-scented flowers.

Specimen information

Collection Date
22/06/2001

Collector
W.D. Hawthorne, S.Cable & D. Jules

Specimen Number
620

Location
Road near crater lake.

Notes
Tree 9 m tall. BARK: smooth. SLASH: soft, fibrous, outer layer dark, inner layer pale pink turning rusty orange with a rusty orange exudate, sapwood white. LEAVES: bullate, leathery; US midrib and secondaries channelled. FLOWERS: buds white. (RHS colour code: Leaf upper =146A, below=146B)

Coordinates
Latitude: 12.060000 N   Longitude: 61.420000 W   Altitude: 600