• Family : Thymelaeaceae
  (Mezereum Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : RAMETA FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : Thymelaeaceae
• Synonym(s) : Daphne cannabina Wall.; Daphne cavaleriei H.Lév.; Daphne eriocephala Royle; Daphne mairei H.Lév.
• Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Daphne papyracea Wall. ex G.Don
• Common name : Indian Paper Plant, Indian paper tree
• Vernacular name : Satpura, Setburwa, Setburosa, Bhanchoi (Hindi); Ka dieng baiong (Khasi); Baruvaa, Lokta (Nepali); Zan-nula-rimtui (Mizo)
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Forests
• Comments / notes : Paper is made out of the inner fibrous bark
• Key identification features : A much-branched erect evergreen shrub with smooth grey bark, with dull green narrow-lanceolate to oblanceolate leathery leaves, and with scented white or greenish-white flowers borne in terminal clusters with persistent hairy bracts. Flowers with tube 10-13 mm long, very downy outside, and 4 acute spreading lobes c. 8 mm long. Leaves 5-12 cm, hairless, with veins impressed above, stalk short and grooved.
• Flower, Fruit : November-April
• Distribution :
  • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
• Native : India, Bangladesh, China South-Central, China Southeast, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, West Himalaya
• Exotic/Native : Native
• Literature : Oleg P & Adam S (1984). Flowers of Himalaya. Oxford University Press: 1218
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Navendu Page, Deepak Kumar (2020). Pan India Bouquets. http://flora-peninsula-indica.ces.iisc.ac.in/pan/plants.php?name=Daphne papyracea. Downloaded on 30 June 2022.

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