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Calamus lakshmanae
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Family:
ARECACEAE/PALMAE
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Citation: Calamus lakshmanae Renuka, JETB 14: 701. 1990; Renuka, Rattans W. Ghats 37.1992; Rangan et al., Rheedea 13: 78. 2003.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Man-chooral
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Description:
Clustering, high climbing rattans; stem 2-2.5 cm with sheath and 1 cm without sheath in diameter. Leaves 1.65 m long, ecirrate; leaf sheath yellowish green to green, densely armed with yellowish bulbous based spines, spines up to 1 cm long, pointing horizontally or upwards; distal younger sheath less spiny and with brown markings; knee present; petiole to 20 cm long, armed with small curved spines; leaflets regular, linear-lanceolate, tip not ciliate, to 45 x 2 cm, terminal leaflets 20 x 1 cm, 3 veined, lateral veins ciliate on dorsal surface, midvein ciliated on ventral surface, margin spinulose. Inflorescence long, pendulous; primary sheath slightly sheathing with short spines; partial inflorescence to 60 cm long, attached above the mouth of the sheath; secondary sheath tubular-infundibuliform, tightly sheathing, up to 4 cm long, narrow at base and flat on inner side, with 3-4 small prickles in distal region, rachillae up to 12 cm long; involucrophorum sessile; involucre cup-shaped; fruiting perianth slightly callous at base. Fruits 1 x 0.7 cm, ovate, scales in 26 vertical rows, bright green when young; channeled along the middle, endosperm ruminate.
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Habit:
Climber
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Flowering & Fruiting:
October-April
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District(s):
Malappuram
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen and semi-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):
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:
Southern Western Ghats
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IUCN status:
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