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Cinnamomum walaiwarense
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Family:
LAURACEAE
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Citation: Cinnamomum walaiwarense Kosterm., Bull. Bot. Surv. India 25: 119. 1983 (1985)
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Description:
Trees up to 6 m tall; bark very smooth, light brown 0.5 mm thick; branchlets slender, the apical part densely, very minutely subsericeous. Leaves opposite, chartaceous, oblong (2 x 7) - 3-4 x 11-2.5 x 9 cm, acuminate, base acute; above glabrous, smooth, glossy, the main nerves thin, prominulous: below densely, minutely sericeous, glabrescent midrib slender, prominent, the almost basal lateral nerves which reach the base of the acumen, thin, prominent, secondary nerves faint, parallel, horizontal, 2-4 m apart; petiole 5-15 mm, concave above. Infructescence axillary, very slender, up to 10 cm long, with many fruit with long slender glabrous peduncle and few, up to 1.5 cm long apical, densely, minutely sericeous. Cup cup-shaped, deep, rather fleshy, conspicuously longitudinally ribbed. Slightly more than half of the basal part of the tepals indurate, persistent, their tips pubescent withered, not hardened, base of cup obconial, merging into the obconical short pedicel.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
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District(s):
Idukki
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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):
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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:
Western Ghats
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