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Ixonanthes khasiana Hook.f.

Synonym	:	Hypericinea pedunculosa Wall.
Family	:	Ixonanthaceae
Distribution	:	India; Assam and Meghalaya
Habitat	:	Found in rainforest over 1,000 m.
Endemic/Exotic	:	Endemic to North-East India
IUCN Status	:	Vulnerable
Key botanical characters: Trees, ca 40 m tall; trunk 80 cm in diam., fluted at base. Leaves 7 - 13 x 2.5 - 5 cm, elliptic-lanceolate to oblong, narrowed and decurrent into short petiole at base, obtusely acuminate at apex, entire, membranous, glabrous, secondary nerves 6 - 9 on either half with many intermediate nerves, very oblique; petioles 0.6 - 1.8 cm long, glabrous. Peduncles slender, 4 - 10.5 cm long, obscurely winged. Flowers ca 5 mm across; pedicels 3 - 8 mm long. Sepals 2 - 5 x 1 - 4 mm. Petals 3 - 7 x 2 - 4 mm, suborbicular, enlargedand hardened round the fruit. Stamens 10; filaments linear; anthers oblong. Ovary 5-locular; styles ca 3 cm long; stigmas discoid. Capsules 3 - 4 x 1 - 1.5 cm, oblong, pointed at apex 5-valved. Seeds wigned at tip, ca 2.5 cm long, wing 1 - 1.5 x 0.4 - 0.6 cm, obliquely oblong.