Vasilis Teodoridis:
Anacardiaceae | Lannea
1. Lannea coromandelica (Houttuyn) Merrill; J. Arnold Arbor. 19: 353. 1938.
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Dialium coromandelinum Houttuyn; Nat. Hist. 2(2): 39. 1774; Calesiam grande (Dennstedt) Kuntze; Haberlia grandis Dennstedt; Lannea grandis (Dennstedt) Engler; L. wodier (Roxburgh) Adelbert; Odina pinnata Rotte; O. wodier Roxburgh; Rhus odina Buchanan-Hamilton.
Deciduous trees; 5-10 m tall; branchlets densely covered with ferruginous stellate hairs. Petiole and rachis terete; sparsely covered with ferruginous stellate hairs; leaf blade 10-33 cm; imparipinnately compound; with (5-)7-9(-11) leaflets; leaflet petiolule 1-3 mm; with ferruginous stellate hairs; leaflet blade membranous or papery; ovate or oblong-ovate; 5.5-9 x 2.5-4 cm; adaxially glabrous; abaxially mixed pubescent and ferruginous stellate-haired; base oblique; subrounded; margin entire; apex long acuminate or caudate-acuminate; lateral veins 6-10 pairs; slightly impressed adaxially; prominent abaxially. Inflorescences paniculate or racemose; appearing before leaves; gathered at branch apices or on short shoots in leaf-scar axils; male inflorescence 15-30 cm; female inflorescence smaller; subtending bracts 1-2 mm with ciliate margins. Flowers small; yellow or purplish. Calyx lobes ovate to broadly ovate; ca. 1 mm; glabrous with ciliate margins. Petals ovate-oblong; ca. 2.7 x 1.5 mm; recurved at anthesis. Stamens 8; subequal to petals in male flower; reduced and sterile in female flower. Disk annular. Ovary glabrous; ovoid; 4-locular; usually only 1 ovule fertile. Drupe ovoid to slightly reniform; purplish red at maturity; 6-10 x 0.5-1 mm. Fl. Mar; fr. Apr-Jun.
Lowland and hill forests; 100-1800 m. SW Guangdong; S Guangxi; S Yunnan [Bhutan; India; Myanmar; Nepal; Sri Lanka; cultivated elsewhere in continental SE Asia; such as in Cambodia; Laos; Malaysia; Thailand; Vietnam; where it is probably naturalized].