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Calamus delessertianus
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Family:
ARECACEAE/PALMAE
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Citation: Calamus delessertianus Becc., Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. (Calcutta) 11: 276. 1908; Karthik. & Sharma, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 80: 76. 1983; Renuka, Palms Kerala 22. 1999.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Chooral, Pacchachural, Ottamoodan
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Description:
Solitary medium diameter canes; stem to 30 m or more long, 3 cm in diameter at base and 5-6 cm at the apex with sheath; 2-2.5 cm without sheaths. Leaves ca 2 m long, ecirrate; sheath dark green, spiny, spines bulbous based; petiole 50-60 cm long; rachis spiny; leaflets regular, to 55 x 2.5 cm, linear lanceolate; veins ciliated; cilia to 1.5 cm long, black tipped; leaf margins spinulose. Female inflorescence rather large; primary sheath coriaceous, tubular, closely sheathing at base, splits open slightly at the mouth, densely spiny; partial inflorescence to 30 cm long, attached inside the sheath, recurved, basal ones some times branched. Fruits spherical, 1.5 cm in diameter, stalk 3-10 mm long; scales straw yellow, spirally arranged, distinguished into 28 vertical series, deeply channeled in the middle; endosperm ruminate.
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Habit:
Climber
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Flowering & Fruiting:
August-June
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District(s):
Thiruvananthapuram, Pathanamthitta, Idukki, Palakkad, Wayanad, Kannur, Thrissur
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen forests
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Distribution:
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):
Creamy, Yellow
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Monocotyledonous 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:
Western Ghats
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IUCN status:
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