Small tree ; up to 3 m tall with pale grey to white peeling bark . Stems much-branched , spreading with brownish hairs . Leaves alternate or crowded in short shoots , 2–8 . 5 × 1–9 cm , ovate or elliptic , base rounded to cuneate , apex emarginated to rounded , margins slightly toothed , softly-hairy , venation reticulate ; petiole 5–50 mm . Inflorescences clustered in dense terminal cymes , densely tomentose ; pedicels ± 1 mm , articulate at the apex . Flowers fragrant , pale yellow , unisexual or bisexual ; calyx in both types of flowers 6–8 mm , cylindrical to funnel-shaped , often slightly sulcate , tomentose with simple and branched hairs , 3–5-lobed or 2-lipped ; fruiting calyx shallow , forming a cup up to 1 cm wide ; corolla pale yellow , tube 4–7 mm , 3–5-lobed , lobes oblong to obovate , spreading . Fruit drupe , 9–20 mm , globose with an acute tip , ripening yellow or orange , fleshy , partly enclosed by the enlarged and hardened cup-shaped persistent calyx . (Ref . Plants of Dhofar) .
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Endemic (EN) - Data Daficient (DD) - National Assessment
Very Rare
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
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Not recorded yet. However, probably treated the same way as Cordia monoica. (Ref. Oman Botanic Garden).
*Ghazanfar, S. (2015). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.3: Loganiaceae – Asteraceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 25). ISBN 9789082352511 ISSN 0779-2387. *https://en.wikipedia.org *https://antropocene.it *Miller, A., Morris, M. (1988). Plants of Dhofar, the Southern Region of Oman: Traditional, Economic, and Medicinal Uses. Published by Office of the Adviser for Conservation of the Environment, Diwan of Royal Court, Sultanate of Oman; ISBN 10: 0715708082 ISSN 13: 9780715708088. *Patzelt, A. (2015). Oman Plant Red Data Book. Published by Diwan of Royal Court, Sultanate of Oman. Oman Botanic Garden Publication No. 1. ISBN 978-99969-50-10-0.
