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Abelmoschus angulosus var. purpureus
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Family:
MALVACEAE
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Citation: Abelmoschus angulosus Wall. ex Wight & Arn. var. purpureus Thw., Enum. Pl. Zeyl. 26. 1858; Sivar. & Pradeep, Malvac. Southern Peninsular India 58. 1996; Pradeep, Fl. Vellarimala 25. 2000.
Hibiscus setinervis Dunn, Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1914: 324. 1914; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 97(69). 1915.
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Description:
Woody subshrubs to 2 m tall; stems stout, terete, densely clothed with erect, rigid, yellowish hairs. Leaves alternate, 5-14 x 6-15 cm, cordate at base, 3-7 angular or lobed, 5-7 nerved at base, margins serrate, pubescent with stiff appressed simple hairs on both surfaces; petioles to 16 cm long. Flowers axillary, solitary. Involucellar bracts 4, connate throughout their length, splitting on one side at anthesis, ovate- acute, coriaceous, erect, accrescent, prominently ribbed, densely hispid with rigid bristly hairs intermingled with short stellate hairs outside, densely appressed hairy within. Corolla to 10 cm long, uniformly deep pink. Capsules 4.5 cm long, ovoid, acute, very densely pubescent with pale yellowish, rigid shiny prickly hairs. Seeds 3 mm diameter, subglobose, brownish-black, concentrically pubescent with white hairs.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
October-December
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District(s):
Kozhikkode, Palakkad, Idukki, Kottayam
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Grasslands and shola forests
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Distribution:
Indo-Malesia
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
Pink
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
No
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
1000-1500
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Localities:
Damodaran Kolle
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