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Biophytum veldkampii
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Family:
OXALIDACEAE
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Citation: Biophytum veldkampii Shanavas, Santhosh, Binu, Pushpangadan, Rheedea 8: 79. 1998; N.P. Balakr. & W. Arisdason in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 575. 2005.
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Description:
Annual; stem branched or not, to 15 cm high. Leaves 7-16-jugate; rachises 2.5-12 cm long, slightly winged, sparsely patently strigose. Leaflets often overlapping; terminal one obovate and falcate, oblique, longer than the preceeding, 7.5-16 x 3.5-7 mm; midnerve eccentric; other leaflets oblong, truncate at base, apiculate at apex, ciliate at margin, sparsely hairy above on acroscopic half and midnerve; nerves few, oblique to midnerve, inconspicuous. Peduncles 6-9 cm long, appressed to patently strigose; bracts ovate, mucronate, 2-3 mm long, strigose; pedicels 1.5-2.5 mm long, glabrous. Flowers heterotristylous. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, 4-4.5 x 0.75-1 mm, half as long as petals, 6-8 nerved in fruit, longer than pedicel and capsule, sparsely strigose near apex outside. Petals oblanceolate, retuse at apex, 8-10 x 4-5 mm, with greenish claw and yellow limb. Filaments 1-4 mm long, puberulous. Ovary 0.5-1 x ca 0.3 mm, apically ciliate; ovules 2 in each locule, superposed; styles 0.25-2.75 mm long; stigma flat, crenate-bifid. Fruits 3-3.5 x 2-2.5 mm, apically ciliate on ribs; seeds ca 1.4 x 0.9 mm, transversely ridged, not tubercled.
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Habit:
Herb
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Flowering & Fruiting:
Throughout the year
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District(s):
Thiruvananthapuram
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Wastelands and moist deciduous 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, Green
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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:
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Localities:
Nedumangad
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