Madhuca Gmelin 1791
Creators: name: Kumar, Ettickal Sukumaran Santhosh
name: Shailajakumari, Sreedharan
name: Shareef, Sainudeen Muhammed
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ericales
Sapotaceae
Madhuca

description: Key to the species distributed in the Western Ghats
1. Pedicels glabrous................................................................................................................................................................................2
- Pedicels hairy......................................................................................................................................................................................6
2. Leaves linear-lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate, elliptic or oblanceolate................................................................................................3
- Leaves not as above............................................................................................................................................................................4
3. Pedicels 1.2–2.5 cm long; calyx glabrous or subglabrous................................................................................................ M.neriifolia
- Pedicels 5.0– 6.5 cm long; calyx rusty pubescent ............................................................................................................. M.longifolia
4. Outer sepals glabrous without ................................................................................................................................................ M. fulva
- Outer sepals hairy without..................................................................................................................................................................5
5. Corolla lobes 6..................................................................................................................................................................... M.insignis
- Corolla lobes 7–8......................................................................................................................................................... M. diplostemon
6. Secondary veins more than 20 pairs............................................................................................................................ M. bourdillonii
- Secondary veins less than 19 pairs .....................................................................................................................................................7
7. Stamens between 20–30 ........................................................................................................................................................ M.indica
- Stamens between 16–18 ........................................................................................................................................... M.balakrishnanii
description: Published as part of Kumar, Ettickal Sukumaran Santhosh, Shailajakumari, Sreedharan & Shareef, Sainudeen Muhammed, 2021, Madhuca balakrishnanii (Sapotaceae), a new species from Kerala, India, pp. 78-82 in Phytotaxa 510 (1) on page 79, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.510.1.8, http://zenodo.org/record/5426299