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Apodytes dimidiata
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Family:
ICACINACEAE
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Citation: Apodytes dimidiata Meyer ex Arn. in Hook.'s J. Bot. 3: 155. 1840; Manilal, Fl. Silent Valley 52. 1988; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 113. 1990; Sasidh. et al., Bot. Stud. Med. Pl. Kerala 23,31. 1996; Swarup. et al., Shola For. Kerala 54. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 64. 1998; R. Mathur in N.P. Singh et al., Fl. India 5: 18. 2000; N.P. Balakr. in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 683. 2005; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 214. 2009.
Apodytes benthamiana Wight, Ic. t. 1153. 1846; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 588. 1875; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 195(140). 1915.
Apodytes beddomei Mast. in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 588. 1875; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 195(140). 1915.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Slatematthi, Karineeli
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
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Description:
Trees, to 20 m high, bark 1.3 thick, greyish-black, rough, scaly, with short gaping fissures in corky larger, reddish-white beneath. Leaves simple, alternate, estipulate, 3.8-12.6 x 1.5-6 cm, ovate, elliptic-ovate, obovate, obovate-oblong or oblong, apex acuminate, base acute, obtuse or oblique, margin entire or revolute, glabrous, membranous or coriaceous; petiole 8-26 mm long, slender, glabrous, grooved above; lateral nerves 4-9 pairs, slender, pinnate, prominent, intercostae reticulate, faint. Flowers bisexual, 5-8 mm long, white, in terminal or axillary corymbose cymes; pedicel short. Calyx small, 5 toothed, pubescent, persistent. Petals 5, free, oblong, acute, valvate, disc absent. Stamens 5, filaments dilated; anthers oblong, bipartite at base, medifixed, longer than filaments. Ovary superior, oblique, gibbous at base, 1-celled, ovules 2, pendulous, superposed; style slender, eccentric, stigma oblique. Fruit a drupe 15-18 x 10-12 mm, obliquely appendaged; stone crustaceous; seed one, pendulous.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
April-October
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District(s):
Wayanad, Idukki, Palakkad, Kozhikkode, Thiruvananthapuram, Kannur
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen and semi-evergreen forests
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Distribution:
Paleotropics
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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:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
800-1500
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Localities:
Uppermanalar, Thekkady, Pathenthode, Aruvanpara, Muthikulam forests
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