Psydrax dicoccos

Psydrax dicoccos is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is found from southeast China to tropical Asia.

Psydrax dicoccos
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Rubiaceae
Genus: Psydrax
Species:
P. dicoccos
Binomial name
Psydrax dicoccos
Synonyms

Canthium dicoccum (Gaertn.) Merr.

Botany

Commonly known as 'Ceylon box wood' or 'malakafe', it is an unarmed, smooth shrub 3 to 4 meters or more in height. Leaves are extremely variable, ovate, elliptic, ovate or somewhat rounded, 5 to 15 centimeters long, 1.5 to 10 centimeters wide, leathery, shining above, and usually pointed at both ends. Flowers are white, with very slender stalks, 5 to 10 millimeters long, and borne in compressed, short-stalked cymes. Calyx is cut off at the end or obscurely toothed. Corolla is bell-shaped, with a 4- to 6-millimeter tube, and five somewhat pointed lobes. Fruit is rounded, ellipsoid or obovoid, 6 to 10 millimeters long, slightly flattened and obscurely 2-lobed.

References
  1. World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1998). "Psydrax dicoccos". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1998: e.T32604A9716556. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1998.RLTS.T32604A9716556.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.


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