''Scolopia crassipes'' is a species of plant in the family

Salicaceae The Salicaceae is the willow family of flowering plants. The traditional family (Salicaceae ''sensu stricto'') included the willows, poplar, aspen, and cottonwoods. Genetic studies summarized by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG) have greatly ...

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endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

Description

Leaves very variable, oblong-ovate, cordate to rounded base, acute to obtuse apex, margins faintly scalloped.

Trunk

Bark - gray; branches slender, compound axillary spines.

Flowers

White; Inflorescence - simple racemes shorter than leaves.

Fruits

Bright red, fleshy, ovoid berry.

Ecology

Monsoon, intermediate, and rain forest understory.

Culture

Known as ක‍ටු කුරුදු (katu kurundu) in Sinhala.

External links

* http://www.ipni.org/ipni/idPlantNameSearch.do;jsessionid=77BECE62359DD9B842283ABDFB25A844?id=112087-1&back_page=%2Fipni%2FeditAdvPlantNameSearch.do%3Bjsessionid%3D77BECE62359DD9B842283ABDFB25A844%3Ffind_infragenus%3D%26find_isAPNIRecord%3Dtrue%26find_geoUnit%3D%26find_includePublicationAuthors%3Dtrue%26find_addedSince%3D%26find_family%3D%26find_genus%3DScolopia%26find_isGCIRecord%3Dtrue%26find_infrafamily%3D%26find_rankToReturn%3D%26find_publicationTitle%3D%26find_authorAbbrev%3D%26find_infraspecies%3D%26find_includeBasionymAuthors%3Dtrue%26find_modifiedSince%3D%26find_isIKRecord%3Dtrue%26find_species%3D%26output_format%3Dnormal * http://zipcodezoo.com/Plants/S/Scolopia_schreberi/ * http://gni.globalnames.org/name_strings?page=275&search_term=ns%3ASCO* * http://arctos.database.museum/name/Scolopia%20schreberi * http://www2.bishopmuseum.org/HBS/botany/cultivatedplants/?pg=search&str=flacourtiaceae&fld=&lngID=887655681 Endemic flora of Sri Lanka schreberi Taxa named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin {{Salicaceae-stub