Vitex parviflora A.Juss.

  • Filed As

    Verbenaceae
    Vitex parviflora A.Juss.

  • Collector(s)

    E. D. Merrill 340, Sep 1913

  • Location

    Philippines. Bulacan. Luzon, Angat.

  • Identifiers

    NY Barcode: 05129188

    Occurrence ID: a653711e-8f72-4c90-8675-865b473cb331

  • Local Name

    molave, molauin

  • Level 1 Use

    MATERIALS AND PRODUCTS

  • Level 2 Use

    Wood

  • Level 3 Use

    Construction Material

  • Use Notes

    Vitex Parviflora Juss. is very common and widely distributed in the philipines and yields the very hard timber comercially known as molave or molauin.

Vitex altissima Blanco FI. Filip (1837) 516; ed. 2 (1845)>353; eeL 3, 2
(1878) 299, t. non Linn. f.=VITEX PARVIFLORA Juss. (V.
Vitex^genihcutata Blanco op. cit. 514 (sp. nov.); 358; 299=VITEX PARVI-
FLORA Juss.
yitex latifolia Blanco op. cit. 514 (sp. nov.); 358; 298, non Mill
PARVIFLORA Juss.
There is no doubt in my mind, after studying our very fuJly
series of Philippine Vitex, and Blanco’s descriptions, that the
three species described by Blanco are all referable to the common
Vitex	parviflora Juss. (V. Uttoralis Decne.J. In both
altissima, and V. genicvlata I interpret Blanco’s description to
include 3-foliolaie and 5-foliolate leaves, which » probably due
to the inclusion of Vitex turczanmovni Merr., for Vitex
flow invariably has 3-foliolate leaves. Femandez-Villar s re-
duction of Vitex latifolia Blanco to V.	Vahl is cer-
tainly incorrect, for Blanco's description does not apply to Vahl s
species, and moreover Vitex pubescens is not found in Luzon;
the type of V. latifolia Blanco was from San Mateo, not far from
Manila. '' Vitexparviflora Juss. is very common and widely dis-
tributed in the Philippines and yields the very hard timber com-
mercially known as molave or molmwti.	^	,
.Illustrative specimen from Angat, Bulacan Province, Luzon,
September, 1913 (Merrill: Species Bmcoarme A o. 3*Q)--
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Vitex	parviflora AJuss.
Det. R.P.J. de Kok
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
2003
Düçtnin ex Herb. Mas. Hist. Hat. Vindobon
Vitex parviflora
Merrill* Species Blanc.
Ho* 340
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Identified by H. N. MoldeRke and cited
by him in his Monograph of the Genus
August, 1951
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340* Vitex parviflora Juss.
Vitex altisBiaaa Blanco,
non linn, f*
Vitex genioulata Blanoo
Vitex latifolia Blanoo*
non Mill*
Vitex lit tor ali» Bone*
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