Photinia lindleyana - Nilgiri Chokeberry

Nilgiri Chokeberry is a small tree up to 15 m tall. Branchlets are round, warty, hairless. Leaves are simple, alternate, spirally arranged. Stipule lateral, falling off and leaving scar; leaf-stalk about 3.5 cm long, slightly channeled above, hairless; blade 8-11 x 3.8-4.8 cm, elliptic to elliptic-ovate, tip pointed with with a short sharp point, base pointed to rounded, margin sawtoothed to emtire, leathery, hairless; midrib slightly channeled above; secondary nerves 8-14 pairs, slender; tertiary nerves broadly netveined. Flowers are borne at branch-ends, in corymbs. Flowers are 4 mm across, white; sepals ovate, pointed; petals obovate, 1.5 x 1 cm; stamens inserted at the rim of the sepal-cup cup; ovary 3-celled, hairless, stalkless. Flower-stalks are about 0.5 cm. Drupe is nearly spherical; seeds 2-4. Nilgiri Chokeberry is endemic to southern Western Ghats - Anamalai and Nilgiris.