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Ampelocissus birii
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Family:
VITACEAE
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Citation: Ampelocissus birii P.Singh & B.V.Shetty in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 738. 2005.
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Description:
Climbing shrubs; branches striate, glabrous. Leaves alternate, simple, 3-5 lobed, 10-21 x 11-20 cm, cordate at base, crenate-serrate at margin, acuminate at apex, pubescent beneath when young, glabrous when mature; petioles 4-10 cm long. Inflorescence thick, branched, cymose-panicles; primary branch 1.5-2 cm long; panicles 3-4 cm long; peduncles ca 7 cm long; tendrils branched. Flowers pink; pedicels ca 1 mm long, pubescent. Calyx saucer- like, entire, puberulous. Petals oblong, ca 1.7 mm long, puberulous. Disc covering about half of ovary, 5-furrowed. Ovary 10-ribbed. Berries cubiform when dry, ca 13 x 10 mm, usually 4-seeded; seeds elliptic-oblong in outline, mucronate at base, ca 11 x 9 mm with a prominent longitudinal keel on adaxial surface and flat with a shallow groove and fine transverse rays on abaxial surface; margin fine-crenate.
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Habit:
Climber
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Flowering & Fruiting:
May-July
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District(s):
Palakkad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Semi-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):
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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:
Kerala
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IUCN status:
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