Vitex leucoxylon

White wood chaste tree
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Lamiaceae
Genus: Vitex
Species: V. leucoxylon
Binomial name
Vitex leucoxylon
L.f.
Synonyms
  • Vitex alata Willd.
  • Vitex altissima f. alata (Willd.) Moldenke
  • Vitex appendiculata Rottler ex C.B.Clarke
  • Vitex latifolia Wight ex Steud. [Invalid]
  • Vitex zeylanica Turcz. [Illegitimate] [1]

Vitex leucoxylon, the white wood chaste tree, is a species of deciduous woody plant with 15m height, in the Lamiaceae family. Native to Western Ghats of India and Sri Lanka. Bark is brown in color. Leaves compound, digitate; apex acute to obtuse; base cuneate - attenuate; margin entire. Inflorescence is corymbose cymes. Corolla is white with purple color. Fruit is purplish black with four seeded smooth drupe.[2]

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Notes

  1. ↑ http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-213311
  2. ↑ http://www.biotik.org/india/species/v/viteleuc/viteleuc_en.html
  3. ↑ http://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/20029
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