Cordia myxa L.

A deciduous , perennial shrub or small tree ; up to 10 m tall ; with spreading crown and grayish brown bark with longitudinal and vertical fissures . Stems and young shoots hairy but soon glabrous , older with circular petiolar scars . Leaves alternate , simple , 3–15 × 3–15 cm , broadly ovate to almost orbicular , rounded to cordate or cuneate at the base , rounded to shortly obtusely acuminate at the apex , margins usually crenate-dentate , glabrous above , glabrous to pubescent beneath , not scabrid . Inflorescences cymes arranged in few-flowered lax terminal panicles , often on short lateral branches . Flowers cream-white , unisexual , female flowers slightly larger than the male . Male flowers: calyx campanulate , 3-lobed ; corolla white ; lobes 5 , elliptic ; stamens exserted ; filaments 1 . 5–3 . 5 mm long , hairy at the base ; ovary rudimentary and style absent . Female flowers: calyx tubular-campanulate , irregularly 3–4-toothed ; corolla-tube 4 . 5–6 . 5 mm . long ; lobes 4–6 , elliptic to obovate ; stamens with filaments 1 . 5–2 . 5 mm . long , ± pubescent ; anthers sterile ; ovary ... ellipsoid or obovoid . Fruit 13 cm , yellow to light orange , ovoid or globose , apiculate , glabrous ; pulp mucilaginous and sweet ; endocarp broadly ellipsoid or ± globose , deeply rugose , 4-locular , 1–2-seeded . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 3) .

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Not Evaluated (NE)

Frequent

Bourreria glabra (Roth) G.Don
Cordia latifolia Wall. ex G.Don
Cordia officinalis Lam.
Cordia paniculata Roth
Cordia scabrifolia Benth. ex Griseb.
Ehretia glabra Roth
Gerascanthus myxus (L.) Borhidi
Lithocardium myxa Kuntze
Quarena indica Raf.
Sebestena myxa (L.) J.Presl
Sebestena officinalis Gaertn.