Chamror

A small to medium sized tree up to 9 m tall. Young shoots and branches puberulous to glabrescent. Leaves 8-15 x 4.5-1.5 cm, suborbicular, obtuse to acute, minutely pubescent especially on undersurface, but becoming glabrescent, base rounded to cuneate or oblique. Petiole long. Flowers white, in axillary and terminal cymes, subsessile. Calyx ± 1.5 mm long, 5-partite, minutely rusty-tomentese. Lobes c. 1 mm long, ovate, acute. Corolla c. 5 mm long. Lobes ovate-lanceolate, c. 3 mm long, spreading. Filaments c. length of corolla, glabrous, lower half adnate; anthers 1.5 mm long. Styles 2-3 mm long, Stigma capitate. Ovary 2 mm long, ovoid. Drupe c. 3 mm long, black and wrinkled (When dry).

Trees ca. 10 m tall; bark gray-brown; branches gray, scabrous, with elliptic lenticels; branchlets brown, densely pubescent. Petiole 1-2 cm, pubescent or subglabrous; leaf blade ovate-elliptic to obovate, 6-12 × 3-8 cm, abaxially with fascicled short hairs in vein axils, adaxially usually glabrous or pubescent near base, base rounded to broadly cuneate, margin entire, apex obtuse. Cymes terminal and axillary, sparsely dichotomously branched, 5-6 cm wide, densely yellow-brown pubescent, ebracteate. Flowers sessile. Calyx ca. 2 mm; lobes triangular. Corolla white, subrotate, ca. 3 mm; lobes reflexed, oblong, ca. 2 mm, longer than tube. Stamens exserted; filaments subulate, ca. 3 mm, inserted ca. 0.5 mm above base; anthers elliptic, ca. 0.5 mm. Style ca. 2 mm, branches ca. 0.5 mm. Drupes yellow or orange, 3-4 mm in diam.; endocarp wrinkled, divided at maturity into 4 1-seeded pyrenes. Fl. Feb-Apr. 2n = 26.

Subtropical Himalaya (Kashmir to Sikkim), india, Burma, Thailand, Indo-China, Hainan.

Distribution: Iran, Pakistan, Kashmir eastward to Burma and Hainan, Polynesia Indochina and Australia.

150-1100 m

Forest slopes, roadsides. Hainan (Baoting Xian, upper Chang Jiang) [Bhutan, India, Kashmir, Laos, Myanmar, Pakistan, Vietnam; Australia].

Ehretia laevis var. platyphylla Merrill.

Ehretia laevis is a small tree belonging to the Boraginaceae or borage family.

It is native tree of Asia, and found in China, Bhutan, India, Pakistan, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam.