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Allophylus subfalcatus var. distachyus
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Family:
SAPINDACEAE
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Citation: Allophylus subfalcatus Radlk., Rec. Bot. Surv. India 3: 342. 1907, var. distachyus (DC.) Mukerjee, Indian For. 98: 493. 1972; P.C. Pant in N.P. Singh et al., Fl. India 5: 351. 2000; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 241. 2009.
Schmidelia distachya DC., Prodr. 1: 610. 1824.
Allophylus cobbe forma distachya (DC.) Hiern in Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 673. 1875.
Allophylus distachys (DC.) Radlk. in Engl. & Prantl, Naturl. Pflanzenfam. 3:313. 1895; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 246(176). 1918; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 110. 1988; Manilal, Fl. Silent Valley 63. 1988; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 130. 1990; Sasidh. et al., Bot. Stud. Med. Pl. Kerala 25,33. 1996.
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Description:
Large shrubs; bark lenticelled, greyish white. Leaves long petioled, 3- foliate; leaflets ovate-lanceolate, 7-24 x 0.5-8 cm, long-acuminate, unequal at base, lateral ones usually smaller, glabrous to glossy, chartaceous, distantly serrate-dentate, repand crenate. Racemes dense flowered, unbranched. Sepals glabrescent. Petals cuneate; disc puberulous. Stamens 8, inserted and in bisexual flowers surrounding the ovary. Ovary usually 2- lobed, 2-loculed; in male flowers merely a pistillode; styles 2, ovule 1 in each cell. Fruits clavate-ellipsoid, glabrous, orange red. Seeds with short aril.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
November-March
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District(s):
Wayanad, Palakkad, Kannur, Kozhikkode
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen forests
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Distribution:
India, Bangladesh and Indo-Malaya
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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):
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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:
-800
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Localities:
below Poochapara, Chandanathode, Silent Valley R. F.
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