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Antidesma keralense
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Family:
EUPHORBIACEAE
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Citation: Antidesma keralense Chakrab. & Gangop., Journ. Econ. Tax. Bot. 24: 23. 2000; N.P.Balakr. & Chakrab., Fam. Euphorbiaceae India 305. 2007
Antidesma bunius sensu Mohanan & Henry, M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 428, non (L.) Spreng. 1825.
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Description:
Shrubs, ca 3 m high, entirely glabrous; branchlets greyish or pale brownish, terete, 2-4 mm thick. Leaves alternate, 7-13 x 2.5 - 5 cm, elliptic to oblong-elliptic, acute or sometimes rounded at base, caudate or acuminate at apex, coriaceous, reddish-brown or dark brown or often greenish- brown above when dry, coppery or pale brown beneath; midrib shallowly channelled above, raised beneath; lateral nerves 8-12 pairs, slender, faint or prominent above, conspicuous beneath, straight to arcuate; tertiary nerves faint above, conspicuous beneath, reticulate; nervules prominent beneath; petioles 5-10 x 1-2 mm, channelled above. Infructescences axillary, simple, 5-16 cm long; rachis adpressed yellow-puberulous to glabrous, ca 1 mm thick at base; fruits obliquely ovoid-ellipsoid, compressed, 9-11 x 6-7 mm, black-brown when dry, alveolate; pedicels ca 1 mm long; style subterminal.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
-May
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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 (Kerala)
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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):
Yellow, Red
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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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Altitude:
100-1200
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Localities:
Chemungi, on way to Chemungi
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