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Apollonias arnottii
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Family:
LAURACEAE
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Citation: Apollonias arnottii Nees, Syst. Laurin. 670. 1836; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 121. 1886; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1219(854). 1925; Manilal, Fl. Silent Valley 234. 1988; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 392. 1988; Sasidh. et al., Bot. Stud. Med. Pl. Kerala 31. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Shenduruny WLS 265. 1997; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 583. 1997; Mohanan & Sivad., Fl. Agasthyamala 564. 2002; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 695. 2009.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Chenthanam, Chulunthu, Karamavu
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
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Description:
Trees, to 12 m high; young shoots glabrescent. Leaves simple, scattered near the end of branchlets or alternate spiral, estipulate; petiole 5-18 mm long, slender, grooved above, glabrous; lamina 5-16 x 1.4-4 cm, elliptic, elliptic-lanceolate or narrowly lanceolate, base attenuate or acute, apex acuminate or caudate-acuminate, margin entire, pubescent on both sides when young, glabrous on ageing, coriaceous; lateral nerves 5-13 pairs, pinnate, ascending, prominent, intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers bisexual, yellowish, small, 3-4 mm long, in axillary or subterminal racemose panicles of 2.5-5 cm long; peduncle and the pedicels slender; bracts and bracteoles minute; perianth tube short; lobes 6, subequal, in 2 rows; stamens 9 perfect, those of the first and second rows introrse, opposite the perianth lobes, those of the third row opposite the first and extrorse with a pair of stalked glands at the base; ovary half inferior, sessile, 1-celled; ovule 1, pendulous; style curved; stigma depressed capitate. Fruit a drupe, 10-12 mm long, ovoid, pale green, seated on enlarged perianth lobes.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
November-December
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District(s):
Wayanad, Malappuram, Kannur, Thiruvananthapuram, Palakkad, Kollam
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Shola and 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):
Yellow
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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:
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Altitude:
1000-1400
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Localities:
Kallar, Mananthavady, Damsite, Chandanathode, Nadugani ghats, Attayar, Chemungi
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