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Cassine paniculata
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Family:
CELASTRACEAE
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Citation: Cassine paniculata (Wight & Arn.) Lobr.-Callen, Adansonia ser. 2. 15: 220. 1976; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 66. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 66. 1999; K. Ramam. in N.P. Singh et al., Fl. India 5: 83. 2000; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 64. 2002; K. Ramam. & P. Venu in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 699. 2005; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 219. 2009.
Elaeodendron paniculatum Wight & Arn., Prodr. 157. 1834; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 212(152). 1918.
Elaeodendron glaucum sensu Lawson in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 623. 1875,p.p. non Pers. 1805.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Thannimaram
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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 grey, smooth; blaze red; exudation watery; branchlets slender, terete. Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; stipules minute, cauducous; petiole 8-15 mm, slender, grooved above, glabrous; lamina 7-9 x 2.5-4 cm, elliptic-oblong, obovate, oblanceolate, lanceolate or ovate lanceolate, base acute or cuneate, apex acute or obtusely-acuminate, margin crenate, glabrous, coriaceous; lateral nerves 6-8 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae reticulate, slender, faint. Flowers bisexual, greenish-yellow, 1 cm across, in axillary stout dichasial corymbose cymes; calyx 5-lobed, lobes unequal, imbricate; petals 5, obovate, spreading; stamens 5, inserted into the margin of the disc; filaments slender at length recurved; anthers subglobose; disc thick, fleshy, margin sinuate; ovary immersed in the disc, conical, 2-5-celled, ovules 2 in each cell; style short; stigma small. Fruit a drupe, 2.5 x 1.5 cm, globose to ellipsoid, apiculate; seed one, erect.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
March-June
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District(s):
Palakkad, Idukki, Wayanad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Shola and evergreen forests
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Distribution:
Indo-Malesia
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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:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Olikkudy, Muddalakottithode, Kariamchola
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