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Agasthiyamalai pauciflorum
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Family:
CLUSIACEAE/GUTTIFERAE
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Citation: Agasthiyamalai pauciflora (Bedd.) S. Rajkumar & Janarth., J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas 1: 131. 2007.
Poeciloneuron pauciflorum Bedd., Fl. Sylv. t.93.1871; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 278. 1874; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 77(56). 1915; N.P. Singh in B.D. Sharma & Sanjappa, Fl. India 3: 146. 1993; Gopalan & Henry, Endemic Pl. Agasthiyamala 337. 2000; Mohanan et al., Ann. For. 7: 87. 1999; Mohanan & Sivad., Fl. Agasthyamala 89. 2002; W. Arisdason & P. Daniel in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 353. 2005.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Poothakkali, Pulivayila
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Description:
Trees, to 15 m tall; branchlets minutely hairy. Leaves opposite, elliptic, lanceolate or oblong-elliptic, attenuate at base, entire or slightly recurved at margin, bluntly caudate acuminate at apex, 5.5-13 x 1.5-4 cm, glabrous; petioles 7-10 mm long. Flowers solitary, paired or 4 in fascicles, terminal or in axilary leaf scars axils, 1-1.2 cm across, white; bracts 3-angled, ca 3 mm long. Sepals 4, unequal; inner pair ca 6 mm long; the outer ca 2 mm long, puberulous outside. Petals 6 imbricate, glabrous. Stamens 16-24 in 2 whorls, subsessile, inserted on disc below ovary; filaments to 0.2 mm long; anthers linear-oblong, acute or cuneate at base, 2.5-3.5 mm long with a transparent ca 1.5 mm long flap with a distinct nerve and mucronate apex, smooth, 2-loculed. Ovary ca 2 mm long, 2-loculed; ovules 2 in each locule, erect; styles 2, ca 3.5 mm long. Capsules ovoid or globose, ca 2.5 cm, with persistent sepals and 3 stylar bases, dehiscing into 2 coriaceous valves, 1-loculed; seed 1, globose, ca 1 cm.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
December-March
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District(s):
Thiruvananthapuram
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen forests
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Distribution:
Southern Western Ghats
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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):
White
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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:
Southern Western Ghats
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IUCN status:
Endangered (EN)
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Altitude:
300-1000
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Localities:
Varagaliar, Bonaccord, Karamanayar region
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