Microtropis zeylanica

Microtropis zeylanica
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Celastrales
Family: Celastraceae
Genus: Microtropis
Species: M. zeylanica
Binomial name
Microtropis zeylanica
Merr. & Freeman.

Microtropis zeylanica is a species of plant in the Celastraceae family. It is endemic to Sri Lanka. Leaves are opposite and variable, rotund to narrowly oval, rounded to subcordate base, margins entire, revolute. The trunk is very branched; twigs somewhat angular. Its flowers are white, sessile; Inflorescence - small dense axillary clusters, and its fruits are ovoid, apiculate, with a scurfy capsule, tapering to the apex. It is occurs naturally in montane forest understories.

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