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Celtis tetrandra
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Family:
ULMACEAE
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Citation: Celtis tetrandra Roxb., Fl. Ind. 2: 63. 1832; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 482. 1888; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1348(944). 1928; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 428. 1988; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 441. 1990; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 388. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 295. 1999; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 764. 2009.
Celtis serotina Planch., Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. ser. 3, 10: 301. 1848.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Karukkuyyan, Kuyyamaram, Oma, Poochakkurumaram
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
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Description:
Trees, to 30 m high, bark 0.6 cm, smooth, grey, lenticellate, wrinkled horizontally; blaze yellow; branchlets slender, pubescent. Leaves simple, alternate; stipules linear-lanceolate, lateral, free; petiole 3-10 mm, slender, pubescent, shallowly grooved above; lamina 5-14 x 2.5-7 cm, obliquely ovate or obliquely ovate-lanceolate; base oblique, apex acuminate, margin serrate from apex to below middle then entire, membranous, glabrous above, puberulent beneath; 3-nerved from base, prominent, lateral nerves 1-4 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae scalariform, prominent. Flowers polygamous, yellow; male in axillary clusters, born on leafless shoots; pedicels 1 cm long, filiform; female flowers on leaf axils; tepals 4, 1.5 mm long, ciliate, concave, obtuse; stamens 4, inserted round a woolly torus; ovary sessile, obovoid, pubescent, 1-celled; style ciliate. Fruit a drupe, 7 x 6 mm, ovoid, glabrous.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
February-March
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District(s):
Idukki, Palakkad, Kannur, Wayanad
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Medicinal:
Yes
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Habitat:
Evergreen and shola 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, Kalvarimala, Mangaladevi, on way to Brahmagiri, Marayur, Kaikatty
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